Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/memcontrol: do not tweak node in mem_cgroup_init()

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 16-06-23 16:28:38, Haifeng Xu wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2023/6/15 16:14, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Thu 15-06-23 07:32:25, Haifeng Xu wrote:
> >> mem_cgroup_init() request for allocations from each possible node, and
> >> it's used to be a problem because NODE_DATA is not allocated for offline
> >> node. Things have already changed since commit 09f49dca570a9 ("mm: handle
> >> uninitialized numa nodes gracefully"), so it's unnecessary to check for
> >> !node_online nodes here.
> > 
> > How have you tested this patch?
> 
> Start with one empty node:
> 
> qemu-system-x86_64 \
>   -kernel vmlinux \
>   -initrd full.rootfs.cpio.gz \
>   -append "console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/ram0 nokaslr earlyprintk=serial oops=panic panic_on_warn" \
>   -drive format=qcow2,file=vm_disk.qcow2,media=disk,if=ide \
>   -enable-kvm \
>   -cpu host \
>   -m 8G,slots=2,maxmem=16G \
>   -smp cores=4,threads=1,sockets=2  \
>   -object memory-backend-ram,id=mem0,size=4G \
>   -object memory-backend-ram,id=mem1,size=4G \
>   -numa node,memdev=mem0,cpus=0-3,nodeid=0 \
>   -numa node,memdev=mem1,cpus=4-7,nodeid=1 \
>   -numa node,nodeid=2 \
>   -net nic,model=virtio,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:58 \
>   -net user \
>   -nographic \
>   -rtc base=localtime \
>   -gdb tcp::6000
> 
> Guest state when booting:
> [    0.048881] NUMA: Node 0 [mem 0x00000000-0x0009ffff] + [mem 0x00100000-0xbfffffff] -> [mem 0x00000000-0xbfffffff]
> [    0.050489] NUMA: Node 0 [mem 0x00000000-0xbfffffff] + [mem 0x100000000-0x13fffffff] -> [mem 0x00000000-0x13fffffff]
> [    0.052173] NODE_DATA(0) allocated [mem 0x13fffc000-0x13fffffff]
> [    0.053164] NODE_DATA(1) allocated [mem 0x23fffa000-0x23fffdfff]
> [    0.054187] Zone ranges:
> [    0.054587]   DMA      [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x0000000000ffffff]
> [    0.055551]   DMA32    [mem 0x0000000001000000-0x00000000ffffffff]
> [    0.056515]   Normal   [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000023fffffff]
> [    0.057484] Movable zone start for each node
> [    0.058149] Early memory node ranges
> [    0.058705]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x000000000009efff]
> [    0.059679]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x00000000bffdffff]
> [    0.060659]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000013fffffff]
> [    0.061649]   node   1: [mem 0x0000000140000000-0x000000023fffffff]
> [    0.062638] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000001000-0x000000013fffffff]
> [    0.063745] Initmem setup node 1 [mem 0x0000000140000000-0x000000023fffffff]
> [    0.064855]   DMA zone: 158 reserved pages exceeds freesize 0
> [    0.065746] Initializing node 2 as memoryless
> [    0.066437] Initmem setup node 2 as memoryless
> [    0.067132]   DMA zone: 158 reserved pages exceeds freesize 0
> [    0.068037] On node 0, zone DMA: 1 pages in unavailable ranges
> [    0.068265] On node 0, zone DMA: 97 pages in unavailable ranges
> [    0.124755] On node 0, zone Normal: 32 pages in unavailable ranges
> 
> 
> cat /sys/devices/system/node/online
> 0-1
> cat /sys/devices/system/node/possible
> 0-2

Excellent! Please extend the changelog by this information. Feel free to
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Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks!
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs