Re: [PATCH] Do not use cpu_to_node() to find an offlined cpu'snode.

[David Rientjes]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2012, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 10:59 +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
> > If a cpu is offline, its nid will be set to -1, and cpu_to_node(cpu) will
> > return -1. As a result, cpumask_of_node(nid) will return NULL. In this case,
> > find_next_bit() in for_each_cpu will get a NULL pointer and cause panic.
> 
> Hurm,. this is new, right? Who is changing all these semantics without
> auditing the tree and informing all affected people?
> 

I've nacked the patch that did it because I think it should be done from 
the generic cpu hotplug code only at the CPU_DEAD level with a per-arch 
callback to fixup whatever cpu-to-node mappings they maintain since 
processes can reenter the scheduler at CPU_DYING.

The whole issue seems to be because alloc_{fair,rt}_sched_group() does an 
iteration over all possible cpus (not all online cpus) and does 
kzalloc_node() which references a now-offlined node.  Changing it to -1 
makes the slab code fallback to any online node.

What I think we need to do instead of hacking only the acpi code and not 
standardizing this across the kernel is:

 - reset cpu-to-node with a per-arch callback in generic cpu hotplug code 
   at CPU_DEAD, and

 - do an iteration over all possible cpus for node hot-remove ensuring 
   there are no stale references.
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