linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] __GFP_THISNODE is not always honored

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Date:	Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:52:47 +0100
From:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Adam Litke <agl@...ibm.com>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	nacc <nacc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, apw <apw@...dowen.org>,
	agl <agl@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] __GFP_THISNODE is not always honored

On (18/08/08 14:21), Christoph Lameter didst pronounce:
> Adam Litke wrote:
> >
> > So far my debugging has led me to get_page_from_freelist() inside the
> > for_each_zone_zonelist() loop.  When buffered_rmqueue() returns a page I
> > compare the value of page_to_nid(page), zone->node and the node that the
> > hugetlb code requested with __GFP_THISNODE.  These all match -- except when the
> > problem triggers.  In that case, zone->node matches the node we asked for but
> > page_to_nid() does not.
> 
> Uhhh.. A page that was just taken off the freelist? So we may have freed or
> coalesced a page to the wrong zone? Looks like there is something more
> fundamental that broke here.
> 

It's still a bit hard to tell but I don't believe we are coalescing wrong
at the moment. buffered_rmqueue() is pretty high in the call chain for the
page allocator. The problem could have been explained if the zonelist walking
for __GFP_THISNODE was screwed but the dmesg output seems to show that's
ok at least. It could also be something really wacky like the page
linkages don't match the zone->node linkages.

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab
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