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From: Robert Richter <robert.richter@cavium.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, will.deacon@arm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	catalin.marinas@arm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	hanjun.guo@linaro.org, xieyisheng1@huawei.com,
	james.morse@arm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: mm: enable CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE for NUMA
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 14:36:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170206133611.GL16822@rric.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1481706707-6211-3-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

On 14.12.16 09:11:47, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> The NUMA code may get confused by the presence of NOMAP regions within
> zones, resulting in spurious BUG() checks where the node id deviates
> from the containing zone's node id.
> 
> Since the kernel has no business reasoning about node ids of pages it
> does not own in the first place, enable CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE to ensure
> that such pages are disregarded.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>

I would rather see a solution other than making pfn_valid checks more
fine grained, but this patch also fixes the issue. So:

Acked-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@cavium.com>

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-02-06 13:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-14  9:11 [PATCH 0/2] arm64: numa: fix spurious BUG() on NOMAP regions Ard Biesheuvel
2016-12-14  9:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: don't dereference struct page fields of invalid pages Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-04 12:16   ` Will Deacon
2016-12-14  9:11 ` [PATCH 2/2] arm64: mm: enable CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE for NUMA Ard Biesheuvel
2016-12-15 15:39   ` Robert Richter
2016-12-15 16:07     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-12-16 17:10       ` Robert Richter
2016-12-16  1:57     ` Hanjun Guo
2016-12-16 17:14       ` Robert Richter
2017-01-04 13:28   ` Will Deacon
2017-01-04 13:50     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-01-04 14:02       ` Will Deacon
2017-01-05 11:24         ` Robert Richter
2017-01-05 12:08           ` Will Deacon
2017-01-05 12:22             ` Robert Richter
2017-01-05 19:49               ` Robert Richter
2017-01-06 12:03                 ` Will Deacon
2017-01-06 12:22                   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2017-02-06 13:36   ` Robert Richter [this message]

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