linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix boot problem in situations where the boot CPU is running on a memoryless node

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Message-ID: <84144f020801231302g2cafdda9kf7f916121dc56aa5@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:02:51 +0200
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Nishanth Aravamudan" <nacc@...ibm.com>
Cc:	"Mel Gorman" <mel@....ul.ie>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	"Christoph Lameter" <clameter@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	lee.schermerhorn@...com, "Linux MM" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"Olaf Hering" <olaf@...fle.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix boot problem in situations where the boot CPU is running on a memoryless node

Hi,

On Jan 23, 2008 9:52 PM, Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ibm.com> wrote:
> On at least one of the machines in question, wasn't it the case that
> node 0 had all the memory and node 1 had all the CPUs? In that case, you
> would have to boot off a memoryless node? And as long as that is a
> physically valid configuration, the kernel should handle it.

Agreed. Here's the patch that should fix it:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/23/332

On Jan 23, 2008 9:52 PM, Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ibm.com> wrote:
> I bet we didn't notice this breaking because SLUB became the default and
> SLAB isn't on in the test.kernel.org testing, for instance. Perhaps we
> should add a second set of runs for some of the boxes there to run with
> CONFIG_SLAB on?

Sure.

On Jan 23, 2008 9:52 PM, Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ibm.com> wrote:
> I'm curious if we know, for sure, of a kernel with CONFIG_SLAB=y that
> has booted all of the boxes reporting issues? That is, did they all work
> with 2.6.23?

I think Mel said that their configuration did work with 2.6.23
although I also wonder how that's possible. AFAIK there has been some
changes in the page allocator that might explain this. That is, if
kmem_getpages() returned pages for memoryless node before, bootstrap
would have worked.

                           Pekka
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