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From: minskey guo on 18 May 2010 02:20
From: minskey guo <chaohong.guo(a)intel.com>

The operation of "enable CPU to online before memory within a node"
fails in some case according to Prarit. The warnings as follows:

Pid: 7440, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.32 #2
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81155985>] pcpu_alloc+0xa05/0xa70
[<ffffffff81155a20>] __alloc_percpu+0x10/0x20
[<ffffffff81089605>] __create_workqueue_key+0x75/0x280
[<ffffffff8110e050>] ? __build_all_zonelists+0x0/0x5d0
[<ffffffff810c1eba>] stop_machine_create+0x3a/0xb0
[<ffffffff810c1f57>] stop_machine+0x27/0x60
[<ffffffff8110f1a0>] build_all_zonelists+0xd0/0x2b0
[<ffffffff814c1d12>] cpu_up+0xb3/0xe3
[<ffffffff814b3c40>] store_online+0x70/0xa0
[<ffffffff81326100>] sysdev_store+0x20/0x30
[<ffffffff811d29a5>] sysfs_write_file+0xe5/0x170
[<ffffffff81163d28>] vfs_write+0xb8/0x1a0
[<ffffffff810cfd22>] ? audit_syscall_entry+0x252/0x280
[<ffffffff81164761>] sys_write+0x51/0x90
[<ffffffff81013132>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Built 4 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 12331603
PERCPU: allocation failed, size=128 align=64, failed to populate

With "enable CPU to online before memory" patch, when the 1st CPU of
an offlined node is being onlined, we build zonelists for that node.
If per-cpu area needs to be extended during zonelists building period,
alloc_pages_node() will be called. The routine alloc_pages_node() fails
on the node in-onlining because the node doesn't have zonelists created
yet.

To fix this issue, we try to alloc memory from current node.

Signed-off-by: minskey guo <chaohong.guo(a)intel.com>
---
mm/percpu.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
index 6e09741..fabdb10 100644
--- a/mm/percpu.c
+++ b/mm/percpu.c
@@ -714,13 +714,29 @@ static int pcpu_alloc_pages(struct pcpu_chunk *chunk,
{
const gfp_t gfp = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_COLD;
unsigned int cpu;
+ int nid;
int i;

for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
for (i = page_start; i < page_end; i++) {
struct page **pagep = &pages[pcpu_page_idx(cpu, i)];

- *pagep = alloc_pages_node(cpu_to_node(cpu), gfp, 0);
+ nid = cpu_to_node(cpu);
+
+ /*
+ * It is allowable to online a CPU within a NUMA
+ * node which doesn't have onlined local memory.
+ * In this case, we need to create zonelists for
+ * that node when cpu is being onlined. If per-cpu
+ * area needs to be extended at the exact time when
+ * zonelists of that node is being created, we alloc
+ * memory from current node.
+ */
+ if ((nid == -1) ||
+ !(node_zonelist(nid, GFP_KERNEL)->_zonerefs->zone))
+ nid = numa_node_id();
+
+ *pagep = alloc_pages_node(nid, gfp, 0);
if (!*pagep) {
pcpu_free_pages(chunk, pages, populated,
page_start, page_end);
--
1.7.0.4

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