Re: [RFC PATCH 00/19] Foundation for automatic NUMA balancing

[Mel Gorman]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 05:27:12PM +0800, Zhouping Liu wrote:
> 
> Hello Mel,
> 
> my 2 nodes machine hit a panic fault after applied the patch
> set(based on kernel-3.7.0-rc4), please review it:
> 
> <SNIP>

Early initialisation problem by the looks of things. Try this please

---8<---
mm: numa: Check that preferred_node_policy is initialised

Zhouping Liu reported the following

[ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 0.000000] kernel BUG at mm/mempolicy.c:1785!
[ 0.000000] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
[ 0.000000] Modules linked in:
[ 0.000000] CPU 0
....
[    0.000000] Call Trace:
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff81176966>] alloc_pages_current+0xa6/0x170
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff81137a44>] __get_free_pages+0x14/0x50
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff819efd9b>] kmem_cache_init+0x53/0x2d2
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff819caa53>] start_kernel+0x1e0/0x3c7

Problem is that early in boot preferred_nod_policy and SLUB
initialisation trips up. Check it is initialised.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
---
 mm/mempolicy.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/mempolicy.c b/mm/mempolicy.c
index 11d4b6b..8cfa6dc 100644
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c
+++ b/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -129,6 +129,10 @@ static struct mempolicy *get_task_policy(struct task_struct *p)
 		node = numa_node_id();
 		if (node != -1)
 			pol = &preferred_node_policy[node];
+
+		/* preferred_node_policy is not initialised early in boot */
+		if (!pol->mode)
+			pol = NULL;
 	}
 
 	return pol;
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