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From:   Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:34:00 +0200
To:     sathyanarayanan kuppuswamy 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] mm/vmalloc.c: Fix percpu free VM area search
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Hello, Sathyanarayanan.

> 
> I agree with Dave. I don't think this issue is related to NUMA. The problem
> here is about the logic we use to find appropriate vm_area that satisfies
> the offset and size requirements of pcpu memory allocator.
> 
> In my test case, I can reproduce this issue if we make request with offset
> (ffff000000) and size (600000).
> 
Just to clarify, does it mean that on your setup you have only one area with the
600000 size and 0xffff000000 offset?

Thank you.

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Vlad Rezki