linux-kernel - Re: [RFC v9 PATCH 00/21] memory-hotplug: hot-remove physical memory

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Date:	Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:41:46 +0800
From:	Wen Congyang <wency@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Vasilis Liaskovitis <vasilis.liaskovitis@...fitbricks.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC v9 PATCH 00/21] memory-hotplug: hot-remove physical memory

At 09/27/2012 06:35 PM, Vasilis Liaskovitis Wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 02:37:14PM +0800, Wen Congyang wrote:
>> Hi Vasilis Liaskovitis
>>
>> At 09/27/2012 12:46 AM, Vasilis Liaskovitis Wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am testing 3.6.0-rc7 with this v9 patchset plus more recent fixes [1],[2],[3]
>>> Running in a guest (qemu+seabios from [4]). 
>>> CONFIG_SLAB=y
>>> CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y
>>>
>>> After succesfull hot-add and online, I am doing a hot-remove with "echo 1 > /sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP/eject"
>>> When I do the OSPM-eject, I often get slab corruption in "acpi-state" cache, or in other caches
>>
>> I can't reproduce this problem. Can you provide the following information:
>> 1. config file
>> 2. qemu's command line
>>
>> You said you did OSPM-eject. Do you mean write 1 to /sys/bus/acpi/devices/PNP0C80:XX/eject?
> yes.
> 
> example qemu command line with one dimm:
> 
> "/opt/qemu-kvm-memhp/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -bios
> /opt/extra/vliaskov/devel/seabios-upstream/out/bios.bin -enable-kvm -M pc -smp
> 4,maxcpus=8 -cpu host -m 2048 -drive file=/opt/extra/debian-template.raw,if=none,id=drive-virtio-disk0,format=raw
> -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,drive=drive-virtio-disk0,id=virtio-disk0,bootindex=1
> -vga cirrus -netdev type=tap,id=guest0,vhost=on -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=guest0
> -monitor unix:/tmp/qemu.monitor11,server,nowait -chardev stdio,id=seabios  -device
> isa-debugcon,iobase=0x402,chardev=seabios
> -dimm id=n0,size=512M,node=0"
> 
> or last line with 2 numa nodes:
> "-dimm id=n0,size=512M,node=0 -dimm id=n1,size=512M,node=1 -numa node,nodeid=0 -numa node,nodeid=1"

I have reproduced this problem. It only can be reproduced when the dimm's memory is on node 0.
I investigate it now.

Thanks
Wen Congyang

> 
> attached config. Tree is at:
> https://github.com/vliaskov/linux/commits/memhp-fujitsu
> 
> thanks,
> - Vasilis

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