Re: [tip:sched/core] sched/numa: Rewrite the CONFIG_NUMA scheddomain support

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri May 25 2012 - 03:31:37 EST


On Thu, 2012-05-24 at 14:23 -0700, Tony Luck wrote:
> Changing both the kzalloc_node() calls in sched_init_numa()
> into plain kzalloc() calls seems to fix things. So it looks like we are trying
> to allocate on a node before the node has been fully set up.

Right,.. and its not too important either, so lets just use regular
allocations.

That said, I can only find the 1 alloc_node() in sched_init_numa()


---
Subject: sched: Don't try allocating memory from offline nodes
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri May 25 09:26:43 CEST 2012

Allocators don't appreciate it when you try and allocate memory from
offline nodes.

Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/core.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched/core.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -6449,7 +6449,7 @@ static void sched_init_numa(void)
return;

for (j = 0; j < nr_node_ids; j++) {
- struct cpumask *mask = kzalloc_node(cpumask_size(), GFP_KERNEL, j);
+ struct cpumask *mask = kzalloc(cpumask_size(), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!mask)
return;



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