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Patch series "mm, memory_hotplug: handle unitialized numa node gracefully". The core of the fix is patch 2 which also links existing bug reports. The high level goal is to have all possible numa nodes have their pgdat allocated and initialized so for_each_possible_node(nid) NODE_DATA(nid) will never return garbage. This has proven to be problem in several places when an offline numa node is used for an allocation just to realize that node_data and therefore allocation fallback zonelists are not initialized and such an allocation request blows up. There were attempts to address that by checking node_online in several places including the page allocator. This patchset approaches the problem from a different perspective and instead of special casing, which just adds a runtime overhead, it allocates pglist_data for each possible node. This can add some memory overhead for platforms with high number of possible nodes if they do not contain any memory. This should be a rather rare configuration though. How to test this? David has provided and excellent howto: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6e5ebc19-890c-b6dd-1924-9f25c441010d@redhat.com Patches 1 and 3-6 are mostly cleanups. The patchset has been reviewed by Rafael (thanks!) and the core fix tested by Rafael and Alexey (thanks to both). David has tested as per instructions above and hasn't found any fallouts in the memory hotplug scenarios. This patch (of 6): This is a preparatory patch and it doesn't introduce any functional change. It merely pulls out arch_alloc_nodedata (and co) outside of CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG because the following patch will need to call this from the generic MM code. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220127085305.20890-1-mhocko@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220127085305.20890-2-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <raquini@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Cc: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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