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Re: [PATCH v2] of, numa: Return NUMA_NO_NODE from disable of_node_to_nid() if nid not possible.

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On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 4:15 PM, David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
>
> On arm64 NUMA kernels we can pass "numa=off" on the command line to
> disable NUMA.  A side effect of this is that kmalloc_node() calls to
> non-zero nodes will crash the system with an OOPS:
>
> [    0.000000] ITS@0x0000901000020000: allocated 2097152 Devices @10002000000 (flat, esz 8, psz 64K, shr 1)
> [    0.000000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00001680
> [    0.000000] pgd = fffffc0009470000
> [    0.000000] [00001680] *pgd=0000010ffff90003, *pud=0000010ffff90003, *pmd=0000010ffff90003, *pte=0000000000000000
> [    0.000000] Internal error: Oops: 96000006 [#1] SMP
> .
> .
> .
> [    0.000000] [<fffffc00081c8950>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0xa4/0xe68
> [    0.000000] [<fffffc000821fa70>] new_slab+0xd0/0x564
> [    0.000000] [<fffffc0008221e24>] ___slab_alloc+0x2e4/0x514
> [    0.000000] [<fffffc0008239498>] __slab_alloc+0x48/0x58
> [    0.000000] [<fffffc0008222c20>] __kmalloc_node+0xd0/0x2dc
> [    0.000000] [<fffffc0008115374>] __irq_domain_add+0x7c/0x164
> [    0.000000] [<fffffc0008b461dc>] its_probe+0x784/0x81c
> [    0.000000] [<fffffc0008b462bc>] its_init+0x48/0x1b0
> [    0.000000] [<fffffc0008b4543c>] gic_init_bases+0x228/0x360
> [    0.000000] [<fffffc0008b456bc>] gic_of_init+0x148/0x1cc
> [    0.000000] [<fffffc0008b5aec8>] of_irq_init+0x184/0x298
> [    0.000000] [<fffffc0008b43f9c>] irqchip_init+0x14/0x38
> [    0.000000] [<fffffc0008b12d60>] init_IRQ+0xc/0x30
> [    0.000000] [<fffffc0008b10a3c>] start_kernel+0x240/0x3b8
> [    0.000000] [<fffffc0008b101c4>] __primary_switched+0x30/0x6c
> [    0.000000] Code: 912ec2a0 b9403809 0a0902fb 37b007db (f9400300)
> .
> .
> .
>
> This is caused by code like this in kernel/irq/irqdomain.c
>
>     domain = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*domain) + (sizeof(unsigned int) * size),
>                   GFP_KERNEL, of_node_to_nid(of_node));
>
> When NUMA is disabled, the concept of a node is really undefined, so
> of_node_to_nid() should unconditionally return NUMA_NO_NODE.
>
> Fix by returning NUMA_NO_NODE when the nid is not in the set of
> possible nodes.
>
> Reported-by: Gilbert Netzer <noname@pdc.kth.se>
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>

Does this need to go in 4.9? stable? If so, since what kernel version?

Rob

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[PATCH v2] of, numa: Return NUMA_NO_NODE from disable of_node_to_nid() if nid not possible. David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com> - 2016-10-28 23:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2] of, numa: Return NUMA_NO_NODE from disable  of_node_to_nid() if nid not possible. Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> - 2016-11-03 04:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2] of, numa: Return NUMA_NO_NODE from disable  of_node_to_nid() if nid not possible. Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> - 2016-11-10 22:00 +0100

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