linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] sched/numa, mm: do not promote folios to nodes not set N

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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:33:40 +0900
From: Byungchul Park <byungchul@...com>
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Subject: [PATCH v2] sched/numa, mm: do not promote folios to nodes not set N_MEMORY

Changes from v1:
	1. Trim the verbose oops in the commit message. (feedbacked by
	   Phil Auld)
	2. Rewrite a comment in code. (feedbacked by Phil Auld)

--->8---
>From 6830b59db267a31b78f6f09af12ae0e3132b4bca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Byungchul Park <byungchul@...com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 16:26:23 +0900
Subject: [PATCH v2] sched/numa, mm: do not promote folios to nodes not set N_MEMORY

While running qemu with a configuration where some CPUs don't have their
local memory and with a kernel numa balancing on, the following oops has
been observed. It's because of null pointers of ->zone_pgdat of zones of
those nodes that are not initialized properly at booting time. So should
avoid nodes not set N_MEMORY from getting promoted.

> BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000000000033f3
> #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> PGD 0 P4D 0
> Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
> CPU: 2 PID: 895 Comm: masim Not tainted 6.6.0-dirty #255
> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
>    rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
> RIP: 0010:wakeup_kswapd (./linux/mm/vmscan.c:7812)
> Code: (omitted)
> RSP: 0000:ffffc90004257d58 EFLAGS: 00010286
> RAX: ffffffffffffffff RBX: ffff88883fff0480 RCX: 0000000000000003
> RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88883fff0480
> RBP: ffffffffffffffff R08: ff0003ffffffffff R09: ffffffffffffffff
> R10: ffff888106c95540 R11: 0000000055555554 R12: 0000000000000003
> R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88883fff0940
> FS:  00007fc4b8124740(0000) GS:ffff888827c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: 00000000000033f3 CR3: 000000026cc08004 CR4: 0000000000770ee0
> DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
> DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
> PKRU: 55555554
> Call Trace:
>  <TASK>
> ? __die
> ? page_fault_oops
> ? __pte_offset_map_lock
> ? exc_page_fault
> ? asm_exc_page_fault
> ? wakeup_kswapd
> migrate_misplaced_page
> __handle_mm_fault
> handle_mm_fault
> do_user_addr_fault
> exc_page_fault
> asm_exc_page_fault
> RIP: 0033:0x55b897ba0808
> Code: (omitted)
> RSP: 002b:00007ffeefa821a0 EFLAGS: 00010287
> RAX: 000055b89983acd0 RBX: 00007ffeefa823f8 RCX: 000055b89983acd0
> RDX: 00007fc2f8122010 RSI: 0000000000020000 RDI: 000055b89983acd0
> RBP: 00007ffeefa821a0 R08: 0000000000000037 R09: 0000000000000075
> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000000
> R13: 00007ffeefa82410 R14: 000055b897ba5dd8 R15: 00007fc4b8340000
>  </TASK>

Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul@...com>
Reported-by: Hyeongtak Ji <hyeongtak.ji@...com>
---
 kernel/sched/fair.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c
index d7a3c63a2171..859ef78ef72b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/fair.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c
@@ -1828,6 +1828,15 @@ bool should_numa_migrate_memory(struct task_struct *p, struct folio *folio,
 	int dst_nid = cpu_to_node(dst_cpu);
 	int last_cpupid, this_cpupid;
 
+	/*
+	 * A node of dst_nid might not have its local memory. Promoting
+	 * a folio to the node is meaningless. What's even worse, oops
+	 * can be observed by the null pointer of ->zone_pgdat in
+	 * various points of the code during migration.
+	 */
+	if (!node_state(dst_nid, N_MEMORY))
+		return false;
+
 	/*
 	 * The pages in slow memory node should be migrated according
 	 * to hot/cold instead of private/shared.
-- 
2.17.1