Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] mm/vmscan.c: Prevent allocating shrinker_info on offlined nodes

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>]

On Tue 07-12-21 19:40:33, Nico Pache wrote:
> 
> 
> On 12/7/21 18:44, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue,  7 Dec 2021 17:40:13 -0500 Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> We have run into a panic caused by a shrinker allocation being attempted
> >> on an offlined node.
> >>
> >> Our crash analysis has determined that the issue originates from trying
> >> to allocate pages on an offlined node in expand_one_shrinker_info. This
> >> function makes the incorrect assumption that we can allocate on any node.
> >> To correct this we make sure the node is online before tempting an
> >> allocation. If it is not online choose the closest node.
> > 
> > This isn't fully accurate, is it?  We could allocate on a node which is
> > presently offline but which was previously onlined, by testing
> > NODE_DATA(nid).
> 
> Thanks for the review! I took your changes below into consideration for my V3.
> 
> My knowledge of offlined/onlined nodes is quite limited but after looking into
> it it doesnt seem like anything clears the state of NODE_DATA(nid) after a
> try_offline_node is attempted. So theoretically the panic we saw would not
> happen. What is the expected behavior of trying to allocate a page on a offline
> node?

To fall back (in the zonelist order) into the other node. If
__GFP_THISNODE is specified then simply fail the allocation.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs