Currently, nvdimm subsystem expects the device numa node for SCM device to be
an online node. It also doesn't try to bring the device numa node online. Hence
if we use a non-online numa node as device node we hit crashes like below. This
is because we try to access uninitialized NODE_DATA in different code paths.
cpu 0x0: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c0000000fac53170]
pc: c0000000004bbc50: ___slab_alloc+0x120/0xca0
lr: c0000000004bc834: __slab_alloc+0x64/0xc0
sp: c0000000fac53400
msr: 8000000002009033
dar: 73e8
dsisr: 80000
current = 0xc0000000fabb6d80
paca = 0xc000000003870000 irqmask: 0x03 irq_happened: 0x01
pid = 7, comm = kworker/u16:0
Linux version 5.2.0-06234-g76bd729b2644 (kvaneesh@ltc-boston123) (gcc version 7.4.0 (Ubuntu 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1)) #135 SMP Thu Jul 11 05:36:30 CDT 2019
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[link register ] c0000000004bc834 __slab_alloc+0x64/0xc0
[c0000000fac53400] c0000000fac53480 (unreliable)
[c0000000fac53500] c0000000004bc818 __slab_alloc+0x48/0xc0
[c0000000fac53560] c0000000004c30a0 __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x3c0/0x6b0
[c0000000fac535d0] c000000000cfafe4 devm_kmalloc+0x74/0xc0
[c0000000fac53600] c000000000d69434 nd_region_activate+0x144/0x560
[c0000000fac536d0] c000000000d6b19c nd_region_probe+0x17c/0x370
[c0000000fac537b0] c000000000d6349c nvdimm_bus_probe+0x10c/0x230
[c0000000fac53840] c000000000cf3cc4 really_probe+0x254/0x4e0
[c0000000fac538d0] c000000000cf429c driver_probe_device+0x16c/0x1e0
[c0000000fac53950] c000000000cf0b44 bus_for_each_drv+0x94/0x130
[c0000000fac539b0] c000000000cf392c __device_attach+0xdc/0x200
[c0000000fac53a50] c000000000cf231c bus_probe_device+0x4c/0xf0
[c0000000fac53a90] c000000000ced268 device_add+0x528/0x810
[c0000000fac53b60] c000000000d62a58 nd_async_device_register+0x28/0xa0
[c0000000fac53bd0] c0000000001ccb8c async_run_entry_fn+0xcc/0x1f0
[c0000000fac53c50] c0000000001bcd9c process_one_work+0x46c/0x860
[c0000000fac53d20] c0000000001bd4f4 worker_thread+0x364/0x5f0
[c0000000fac53db0] c0000000001c7260 kthread+0x1b0/0x1c0
[c0000000fac53e20] c00000000000b954 ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x68
The patch tries to fix this by picking the nearest online node as the SCM node.
This does have a problem of us losing the information that SCM node is
equidistant from two other online nodes. If applications need to understand these
fine-grained details we should express then like x86 does via
/sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/accessY/initiators/
With the patch we get
# numactl -H
available: 2 nodes (0-1)
node 0 cpus:
node 0 size: 0 MB
node 0 free: 0 MB
node 1 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
node 1 size: 130865 MB
node 1 free: 129130 MB
node distances:
node 0 1
0: 10 20
1: 20 10
# cat /sys/bus/nd/devices/region0/numa_node
0
# dmesg | grep papr_scm
[ 91.332305] papr_scm ibm,persistent-memory:ibm,pmemory@44104001: Region registered with target node 2 and online node 0
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190729095128.23707-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com
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