zonelists: handle a node zonelist with no applicable entries
When booting 2.6.26-rc3 on a multi-node x86_32 numa system we are seeing
panics when trying node local allocations:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
0000034c
IP: [<
c1042507>] get_page_from_freelist+0x4a/0x18e
*pdpt =
00000000013a7001 *pde =
0000000000000000
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (
2.6.26-rc3-00003-g5abc28d #82)
EIP: 0060:[<
c1042507>] EFLAGS:
00010282 CPU: 0
EIP is at get_page_from_freelist+0x4a/0x18e
EAX:
c1371ed8 EBX:
00000000 ECX:
00000000 EDX:
00000000
ESI:
f7801180 EDI:
00000000 EBP:
00000000 ESP:
c1371ec0
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=
c1370000 task=
c12f5b40 task.ti=
c1370000)
Stack:
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 000612d0 000412d0 00000000 000412d0
f7801180 f7c0101c f7c01018 c10426e4 f7c01018 00000001 00000044 00000000
00000001 c12f5b40 00000001 00000010 00000000 000412d0 00000286 000412d0
Call Trace:
[<
c10426e4>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x99/0x378
[<
c10429ca>] __alloc_pages+0x7/0x9
[<
c105e0e8>] kmem_getpages+0x66/0xef
[<
c105ec55>] cache_grow+0x8f/0x123
[<
c105f117>] ____cache_alloc_node+0xb9/0xe4
[<
c105f427>] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x92/0xd2
[<
c122118c>] setup_cpu_cache+0xaf/0x177
[<
c105e6ca>] kmem_cache_create+0x2c8/0x353
[<
c13853af>] kmem_cache_init+0x1ce/0x3ad
[<
c13755c5>] start_kernel+0x178/0x1ee
This occurs when we are scanning the zonelists looking for a ZONE_NORMAL
page. In this system there is only ZONE_DMA and ZONE_NORMAL memory on
node 0, all other nodes are mapped above 4GB physical. Here is a dump
of the zonelists from this system:
zonelists pgdat=
c1400000
0:
c14006c0:2
f7c006c0:2
f7e006c0:2
c1400360:1
c1400000:0
1:
c14006c0:2
c1400360:1
c1400000:0
zonelists pgdat=
f7c00000
0:
f7c006c0:2
f7e006c0:2
c14006c0:2
c1400360:1
c1400000:0
1:
f7c006c0:2
zonelists pgdat=
f7e00000
0:
f7e006c0:2
c14006c0:2
f7c006c0:2
c1400360:1
c1400000:0
1:
f7e006c0:2
When performing a node local allocation we call get_page_from_freelist()
looking for a page. It in turn calls first_zones_zonelist() which returns
a preferred_zone. Where there are no applicable zones this will be NULL.
However we use this unconditionally, leading to this panic.
Where there are no applicable zones there is no possibility of a successful
allocation, so simply fail the allocation.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>