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

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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 10:07:53 +0100
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Byungchul Park <byungchul@...com>, mingo@...hat.com,
 peterz@...radead.org, juri.lelli@...hat.com, vincent.guittot@...aro.org,
 dietmar.eggemann@....com, rostedt@...dmis.org, bsegall@...gle.com,
 mgorman@...e.de, bristot@...hat.com, vschneid@...hat.com
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 kernel_team@...ynix.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sched/numa, mm: do not promote folios to nodes not set
 N_MEMORY

On 16.02.24 08:33, Byungchul Park wrote:
> 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>
> 

This sounds like we need a Fixes: and want to CC stable?

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb