On 01/28/2014 10:55 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 09:01:25AM +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
  >  On 01/28/2014 08:32 AM, David Rientjes wrote:
  >  >  On Wed, 22 Jan 2014, David Rientjes wrote:
  >  >
  >  >>>    arch/x86/mm/numa.c | 2 +-
  >  >>>    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
  >  >>>
  >  >>>  diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
  >  >>>  index 81b2750..ebefeb7 100644
  >  >>>  --- a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
  >  >>>  +++ b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
  >  >>>  @@ -562,10 +562,10 @@ static void __init numa_init_array(void)
  >  >>>            }
  >  >>>    }
  >  >>>
  >  >>>  +static nodemask_t numa_kernel_nodes __initdata;
  >  >>>    static void __init numa_clear_kernel_node_hotplug(void)
  >  >>>    {
  >  >>>            int i, nid;
  >  >>>  - nodemask_t numa_kernel_nodes;
  >  >>>            unsigned long start, end;
  >  >>>            struct memblock_type *type =&memblock.reserved;
  >  >>>
  >  >>
  >  >>  Isn't this also a bugfix since you never initialize numa_kernel_nodes 
when
  >  >>  it's allocated on the stack with NODE_MASK_NONE?
  >  >>
  >  >
  >  >  This hasn't been answered and the patch still isn't in linux-kernel yet
  >  >  Dave tested it as good.  I'm suspicious of the changelog that indicates
  >  >  this nodemask is the result of a stack overflow itself which only 
manages
  >  >  to reproduce itself in the init patch slightly more than 50% of the 
time.
  >  >  How is that possible?
  >  >
  >  >  I think the changelog should indicate this also fixes an uninitialized
  >  >  nodemask issue.
  >
  >  Hi David,
  >
  >  I'm still working on this problem, but unfortunately nothing new for now.
  >  And the test till now shows no more problem here.
  >
  >  I'm digging into it, but need more time.
  >
  >  I'll resend a new patch and modify the changelog soon. Before we find the
  >  root cause, I think we can use this patch as a temporary solution.

Ok, I hit the 2nd bug again (oops in next_zones_zonelist...)

I did a bisect with the patch above applied each step of the way.
This time I got a plausible looking result....

I cannot reproduce this. Would you please share how to reproduce it ?
Or does it just happen during the booting ?



a0acda917284183f9b71e2d08b0aa0aea722b321 is the first bad commit
commit a0acda917284183f9b71e2d08b0aa0aea722b321
Author: Tang Chen<tangc...@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 21 15:49:32 2014 -0800

     acpi, numa, mem_hotplug: mark all nodes the kernel resides un-hotpluggable


Reverting this commit of course removes the whole function from above,
so we haven't really learned anything new, other than that commit is broken,
even after the above fix-up.

        Dave

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