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Message-ID: <e33ec69b-21e0-46e3-9b70-6d89548a145b@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 08:36:11 -0700
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...e.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
Andrew Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/NUMA: don't pass MAX_NUMNODES to memblock_set_node()
On 5/29/24 00:42, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On an (old) x86 system with SRAT just covering space above 4Gb:
>
> ACPI: SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 [mem 0x100000000-0xfffffffff] hotplug
OK, so you've got a system with buggy NUMA information. It _used_ to
"refuse" the NUMA configuration. Now it tries to move forward and
eventually does a NULL deref in memmap_init().
Right?
> the commit referenced below leads to this NUMA configuration no longer
> being refused by a CONFIG_NUMA=y kernel (previously
>
> NUMA: nodes only cover 6144MB of your 8185MB e820 RAM. Not used.
> No NUMA configuration found
> Faking a node at [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000027fffffff]
>
> was seen in the log directly after the message quoted above), because of
> memblock_validate_numa_coverage() checking for NUMA_NO_NODE (only). This
> in turn led to memblock_alloc_range_nid()'s warning about MAX_NUMNODES
> triggering, followed by a NULL deref in memmap_init() when trying to
> access node 64's (NODE_SHIFT=6) node data.
This is a really oblique way of saying:
... followed by a NULL deref in memmap_init() of
NODE_DATA(MAX_NUMNODES).
> To compensate said change, avoid passing MAX_NUMNODES to
> memblock_set_node(). In turn numa_clear_kernel_node_hotplug()'s check
> then also needs adjusting.
>
> Fixes: ff6c3d81f2e8 ("NUMA: optimize detection of memory with no node id assigned by firmware")
I was expecting to see MAX_NUMNODES checks in ff6c3d81f2e8 somewhere.
But I don't see any in the numa_meminfo_cover_memory() or
__absent_pages_in_range().
In other words, it's not completely clear why ff6c3d81f2e8 introduced
this problem.
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