linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/alloc: fallback to first node if the wanted node offline

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Date:   Tue, 4 Dec 2018 15:20:13 +0800
From:   Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@...il.com>
To:     richard.weiyang@...il.com
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/alloc: fallback to first node if the wanted node offline

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 2:54 PM Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 11:05:57AM +0800, Pingfan Liu wrote:
> >During my test on some AMD machine, with kexec -l nr_cpus=x option, the
> >kernel failed to bootup, because some node's data struct can not be allocated,
> >e.g, on x86, initialized by init_cpu_to_node()->init_memory_less_node(). But
> >device->numa_node info is used as preferred_nid param for
>
> could we fix the preferred_nid before passed to
> __alloc_pages_nodemask()?
>
Yes, we can doit too, but what is the gain?

> BTW, I don't catch the function call flow to this point. Would you mind
> giving me some hint?
>
You can track the code along slab_alloc() ->...->__alloc_pages_nodemask()

Thanks,
Pingfan