linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: avoid alloc memory on offline node

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Date:   Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:27:01 +0100
From:   Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>
To:     Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@...wei.com>
Cc:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
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        <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
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        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
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        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
        linux-arm <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
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        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        zhongjiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com>, <wanghuiqiang@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: avoid alloc memory on offline node

Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@...wei.com> writes:

[...]

>
> I'll test it when back in the office, but I had a similar issue with
> memory only nodes when I moved the SRAT listing for cpus from the 4
> 4th mode to the 3rd node to fake some memory I could hot unplug.
> This gave a memory only node for the last node on the system.
>
> When I instead moved cpus from the 3rd node to the 4th (so the node
> with only memory was now in the middle, everything worked).
>
> Was odd, and I'd been meaning to chase it down but hadn't gotten to it
> yet.  If I get time I'll put together some test firmwares as see if there
> are any other nasty corner cases we aren't handling.

If you get a chance, it'd be really helpful to test reversing the
ordering of entries in the SRAT and booting with a restricted
NR_CPUS.

This issue was found through code inspection.

Please make sure to use the updated patch from Lorenzo for your
tests[0].

[0] https://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=152998665713983&w=2

>
> Jonathan
>
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