linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mm/vmalloc.c: Fix percpu free VM area search criteria

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Date:   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:34:00 +0200
From:   Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>
To:     sathyanarayanan kuppuswamy 
        <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mm/vmalloc.c: Fix percpu free VM area search
 criteria

Hello, Sathyanarayanan.

> 
> I agree with Dave. I don't think this issue is related to NUMA. The problem
> here is about the logic we use to find appropriate vm_area that satisfies
> the offset and size requirements of pcpu memory allocator.
> 
> In my test case, I can reproduce this issue if we make request with offset
> (ffff000000) and size (600000).
> 
Just to clarify, does it mean that on your setup you have only one area with the
600000 size and 0xffff000000 offset?

Thank you.

--
Vlad Rezki