Re: [PATCH] Fix: PowerNV crash with 4.4.0-rc8 at sched_init_numa

From: Jan Stancek
Date: Mon Jan 18 2016 - 06:07:26 EST






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> From: "Raghavendra K T" <raghavendra.kt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Friday, 15 January, 2016 8:01:23 PM
> Subject: [PATCH] Fix: PowerNV crash with 4.4.0-rc8 at sched_init_numa
>
> Commit c118baf80256 ("arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c: do not allocate bootmem
> memory for non existing nodes") avoided bootmem memory allocation for
> non existent nodes.
>
> When DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS enabled, powerNV system failed to boot because
> in sched_init_numa, cpumask_or operation was done on unallocated nodes.
> Fix that by making cpumask_or operation only on existing nodes.
>
> [ Tested with and w/o DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS on x86 and powerpc ]
>
> Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@xxxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@xxxxxxxxxx>

I also verified with my setup, that this made the crash go away.
Report mail thread for reference:
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2016-January/137691.html

Regards,
Jan

> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/sched/core.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 44253ad..474658b 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -6840,7 +6840,7 @@ static void sched_init_numa(void)
>
> sched_domains_numa_masks[i][j] = mask;
>
> - for (k = 0; k < nr_node_ids; k++) {
> + for_each_node(k) {
> if (node_distance(j, k) > sched_domains_numa_distance[i])
> continue;
>
> --
> 1.7.11.7
>
>