Re: [PATCH] x86/NUMA: don't pass MAX_NUMNODES to memblock_set_node()

[Jan Beulich]

On 29.05.2024 18:08, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 5/29/24 09:00, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> In other words, it's not completely clear why ff6c3d81f2e8 introduced
>>> this problem.
>> It is my understanding that said change, by preventing the NUMA
>> configuration from being rejected, resulted in different code paths to
>> be taken. The observed crash was somewhat later than the "No NUMA
>> configuration found" etc messages. Thus I don't really see a connection
>> between said change not having had any MAX_NUMNODES check and it having
>> introduced the (only perceived?) regression.
> 
> So your system has a bad NUMA config.  If it's rejected, then all is
> merry.  Something goes and writes over the nids in all of the memblocks
> to point to 0 (probably).
> 
> If it _isn't_ rejected, then it leaves a memblock in place that points
> to MAX_NUMNODES.  That MAX_NUMNODES is a ticking time bomb for later.
> 
> So this patch doesn't actually revert the rejection behavior change in
> the Fixes: commit.  It just makes the rest of the code more tolerant to
> _not_ rejecting the NUMA config?

No, the NUMA config is now properly rejected again:

NUMA: no nodes coverage for 2041MB of 8185MB RAM
No NUMA configuration found
Faking a node at [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000027fffffff]

Jan