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On pseries systems, performing a partition migration can result in altering the nodes a CPU is assigned to on the destination system. For exampl, pre-migration on the source system CPUs are in node 1 and 3, post-migration on the destination system CPUs are in nodes 2 and 3. Handling the node change for a CPU can cause corruption in the slab cache if we hit a timing where a CPUs node is changed while cache_reap() is invoked. The corruption occurs because the slab cache code appears to rely on the CPU and slab cache pages being on the same node. The current dynamic updating of a CPUs node done in arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c does not prevent us from hitting this scenario. Changing the device tree property update notification handler that recognizes an affinity change for a CPU to do a full DLPAR remove and add of the CPU instead of dynamically changing its node resolves this issue. Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael W. Bringmann <mwb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Michael W. Bringmann <mwb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.