a1e2b8b368
Qi Zheng reported crashes in a production environment and provided a
simplified example as a reproducer:
| For example, if we use Qemu to start a two NUMA node kernel,
| one of the nodes has 2M memory (less than NODE_MIN_SIZE),
| and the other node has 2G, then we will encounter the
| following panic:
|
| BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
| <...>
| RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x22/0x40
| <...>
| Call Trace:
| <TASK>
| deactivate_slab()
| bootstrap()
| kmem_cache_init()
| start_kernel()
| secondary_startup_64_no_verify()
The crashes happen because of inconsistency between the nodemask that
has nodes with less than 4MB as memoryless, and the actual memory fed
into the core mm.
The commit:
9391a3f9c7f1 ("[PATCH] x86_64: Clear more state when ignoring empty node in SRAT parsing")
... that introduced minimal size of a NUMA node does not explain why
a node size cannot be less than 4MB and what boot failures this
restriction might fix.
Fixes have been submitted to the core MM code to tighten up the
memory topologies it accepts and to not crash on weird input:
mm: page_alloc: skip memoryless nodes entirely
mm: memory_hotplug: drop memoryless node from fallback lists
Andrew has accepted them into the -mm tree, but there are no
stable SHA1's yet.
This patch drops the limitation for minimal node size on x86:
- which works around the crash without the fixes to the core MM.
- makes x86 topologies less weird,
- removes an arbitrary and undocumented limitation on NUMA topologies.
[ mingo: Improved changelog clarity. ]
Reported-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Tested-by: Mario Casquero <mcasquer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZS+2qqjEO5/867br@gmail.com
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