2016-10-06 09:15:43

by Robert Richter

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64, numa: Add cpu_to_node() implementation.

On 27.09.16 14:26:08, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> On 09/20/2016 09:21 PM, Robert Richter wrote:
> >On 20.09.16 19:32:34, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> >>On 09/20/2016 06:43 PM, Robert Richter wrote:
> >
> >>>Unfortunately either your nor my code does fix the BUG_ON() I see with
> >>>the numa kernel:
> >>>
> >>> kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:1848!
> >>>
> >>>See below for the core dump. It looks like this happens due to moving
> >>>a mem block where first and last page are mapped to different numa
> >>>nodes, thus, triggering the BUG_ON().
> >>
> >>Didn't triggered it on our NUMA hardware, could you provide your
> >>config then we can have a try?
> >
> >Config attached. Other configs with an initrd fail too.
>
> hmm, we can't reproduce it on our hardware, do we need
> to run some specific stress test on it?

No, it depends on the efi memory zones marked reserved. See my other
thread on this where I have attached mem ranges from the log. I have a
fix available already.

Thanks,

-Robert