From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ig0-f182.google.com (mail-ig0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B49B6B0038 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 2015 21:26:03 -0500 (EST) Received: by igjz20 with SMTP id z20so33395123igj.4 for ; Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:26:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from szxga01-in.huawei.com (szxga01-in.huawei.com. [119.145.14.64]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y137si3366670iod.20.2015.03.03.18.26.00 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:26:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54F66C52.4070600@huawei.com> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 10:22:10 +0800 From: Xishi Qiu MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: node-hotplug: is memset 0 safe in try_offline_node()? References: <54F52ACF.4030103@huawei.com> <54F58AE3.50101@cn.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <54F58AE3.50101@cn.fujitsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Gu Zheng Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu , Andrew Morton , Tang Chen , Yinghai Lu , Linux MM , LKML , Toshi Kani , Mel Gorman , Tejun Heo , Xiexiuqi , Hanjun Guo On 2015/3/3 18:20, Gu Zheng wrote: > Hi Xishi, > On 03/03/2015 11:30 AM, Xishi Qiu wrote: > >> When hot-remove a numa node, we will clear pgdat, >> but is memset 0 safe in try_offline_node()? > > It is not safe here. In fact, this is a temporary solution here. > As you know, pgdat is accessed lock-less now, so protection > mechanism (RCUi 1/4 ?) is needed to make it completely safe here, > but it seems a bit over-kill. > >> >> process A: offline node XX: >> for_each_populated_zone() >> find online node XX >> cond_resched() >> offline cpu and memory, then try_offline_node() >> node_set_offline(nid), and memset(pgdat, 0, sizeof(*pgdat)) >> access node XX's pgdat >> NULL pointer access error > > It's possible, but I did not meet this condition, did you? > Yes, we test hot-add/hot-remove node with stress, and meet the following call trace several times. next_online_pgdat() int nid = next_online_node(pgdat->node_id); // it's here, pgdat is NULL I add some printk, it shows the above pgdat is just the offline node's pgdat. The reason may be that for_each_zone() and for_each_populated_zone() are lock-less. And stop machine could not resolve it, because cond_resched() maybe in cyclical code. [ 1422.011064] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000025f60 [ 1422.011086] IP: [] next_online_pgdat+0x1/0x50 [ 1422.011178] PGD 0 [ 1422.011180] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 1422.011409] ACPI: Device does not support D3cold [ 1422.011961] Modules linked in: fuse nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat loop dm_mod coretemp mperf crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel ablk_helper cryptd lrw gf128mul glue_helper aes_x86_64 pcspkr microcode igb dca i2c_algo_bit ipv6 megaraid_sas iTCO_wdt i2c_i801 i2c_core iTCO_vendor_support tg3 sg hwmon ptp lpc_ich pps_core mfd_core acpi_pad rtc_cmos button ext3 jbd mbcache sd_mod crc_t10dif scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh ahci libahci libata scsi_mod [last unloaded: rasf] [ 1422.012006] CPU: 23 PID: 238 Comm: kworker/23:1 Tainted: G O 3.10.15-5885-euler0302 #1 [ 1422.012024] Hardware name: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD. Huawei N1/Huawei N1, BIOS V100R001 03/02/2015 [ 1422.012065] Workqueue: events vmstat_update [ 1422.012084] task: ffffa800d32c0000 ti: ffffa800d32ae000 task.ti: ffffa800d32ae000 [ 1422.012165] RIP: 0010:[] [] next_online_pgdat+0x1/0x50 [ 1422.012205] RSP: 0018:ffffa800d32afce8 EFLAGS: 00010286 [ 1422.012225] RAX: 0000000000001440 RBX: ffffffff81da53b8 RCX: 0000000000000082 [ 1422.012226] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000082 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 1422.012254] RBP: ffffa800d32afd28 R08: ffffffff81c93bfc R09: ffffffff81cbdc96 [ 1422.012272] R10: 00000000000040ec R11: 00000000000000a0 R12: ffffa800fffb3440 [ 1422.012290] R13: ffffa800d32afd38 R14: 0000000000000017 R15: ffffa800e6616800 [ 1422.012292] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa800e6600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 1422.012314] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 1422.012328] CR2: 0000000000025f60 CR3: 0000000001a0b000 CR4: 00000000001407e0 [ 1422.012328] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 1422.012328] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 1422.012328] Stack: [ 1422.012328] ffffa800d32afd28 ffffffff81126ca5 ffffa800ffffffff ffffffff814b4314 [ 1422.012328] ffffa800d32ae010 0000000000000000 ffffa800e6616180 ffffa800fffb3440 [ 1422.012328] ffffa800d32afde8 ffffffff81128220 ffffffff00000013 0000000000000038 [ 1422.012328] Call Trace: [ 1422.012328] [] ? next_zone+0xc5/0x150 [ 1422.012328] [] ? __schedule+0x544/0x780 [ 1422.012328] [] refresh_cpu_vm_stats+0xd0/0x140 [ 1422.012328] [] vmstat_update+0x11/0x50 [ 1422.012328] [] process_one_work+0x194/0x3d0 [ 1422.012328] [] worker_thread+0x12b/0x410 [ 1422.012328] [] ? manage_workers+0x1a0/0x1a0 [ 1422.012328] [] kthread+0xc6/0xd0 [ 1422.012328] [] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70 [ 1422.012328] [] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [ 1422.012328] [] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70 Thanks, Xishi Qiu > Regards, > Gu > >> >> Thanks, >> Xishi Qiu >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in >> the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, >> see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . >> Don't email: email@kvack.org >> > > > > . > -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org