Re: 3.9.0: panic during boot - kernel BUG at include/linux/gfp.h:323!

From: Lingzhu Xiang
Date: Wed May 15 2013 - 01:27:53 EST


On 05/15/2013 02:35 AM, Tejun Heo wrote:
Hello,

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:35:29AM +0800, Lingzhu Xiang wrote:
On 05/06/2013 03:55 PM, CAI Qian wrote:
[ 0.928031] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 0.934231] kernel BUG at include/linux/gfp.h:323!
...
[ 1.662913] [<ffffffff812e3aa8>] alloc_cpumask_var_node+0x28/0x90
[ 1.671224] [<ffffffff81a0bdb3>] wq_numa_init+0x10d/0x1be
[ 1.686085] [<ffffffff81a0bec8>] init_workqueues+0x64/0x341

Does the following patch make the problem go away? The dynamic paths
should be safe as they are synchronized against CPU hot plug paths and
don't allocate anything on nodes w/o any CPUs.

Yes, no more panics.


diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 4aa9f5b..232c1bb 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -4895,7 +4895,8 @@ static void __init wq_numa_init(void)
BUG_ON(!tbl);

for_each_node(node)
- BUG_ON(!alloc_cpumask_var_node(&tbl[node], GFP_KERNEL, node));
+ BUG_ON(!alloc_cpumask_var_node(&tbl[node], GFP_KERNEL,
+ node_online(node) ? node : NUMA_NO_NODE));

for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
node = cpu_to_node(cpu);


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