Re: [PATCH V2] x86/numa: kernel stack corruption fix

[Baoquan He]

On 04/08/15 at 09:59am, Xishi Qiu wrote:
> On 2015/4/8 9:46, Dave Young wrote:
> 
> >>>  
> >>> -	/* Mark all kernel nodes. */
> >>> +	/*
> >>> +	 * Mark all kernel nodes.
> >>> +	 *
> >>> +	 * In case booting with mem=nn[kMG] or in kdump kernel, numa_meminfo
> >>
> >> Hi Dave,
> >>
> >> It should both set mem=xx and numa=off, then numa_meminfo may not include all
> >> the memblock.reserved memory, right?
> > 
> > Yasuaki Ishimatsu suggests to remove numa=off in comment because in theory there's such
> > possiblity that it may happen even without numa=off. Just consider the non-snb board..
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Dave
> > 
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> I made a mistake, when numa is on, numa_meminfo is from SRAT, but it will be cut
> in numa_cleanup_meminfo(), so the bug is not related to numa on/off. Your comment
> is right.

Hi Xishi,

>From code flow it's exact as you said. And if remove numa=off bug should
be reproduced alwasy. I talked to Dave, he said error didn't occur when
he remove numa=off. That is too weird.

Thanks
Baoquan > 
> 
> > .
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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