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From: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Subject: [PATCH] sched/numa: Init numa balancing fields of init_task
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:46:29 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1415699189.15631.6.camel@tkhai> (raw)


We do not initialize init_task.numa_preferred_nid,
but this value is inherited by userspace "init"
process:

rest_init()->kernel_thread(kernel_init)->do_fork(CLONE_VM);

__sched_fork()
{
	if (clone_flags & CLONE_VM)
		p->numa_preferred_nid = current->numa_preferred_nid;
	else
		p->numa_preferred_nid = -1;
}

kernel_init() becomes userspace "init" process.

So, we propagate garbage nid to userspace, and it may be used
during numa balancing.

Currently, we do not have reports about this brings a problem,
but it seem we should set it for sure.

Even if init_task.numa_preferred_nid is zero, we may meet a weird
configuration without nid#0. On sparc64, where processors are
numbered physically, I saw a machine without cpu#1, while cpu#2
existed. Possible, something similar may be with numa nodes.
So, let's initialize it and be sure we're safe.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
---
 include/linux/init_task.h |   10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h
index 77fc43f..5f30ac8 100644
--- a/include/linux/init_task.h
+++ b/include/linux/init_task.h
@@ -166,6 +166,15 @@ extern struct task_group root_task_group;
 # define INIT_RT_MUTEXES(tsk)
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
+# define INIT_NUMA_BALANCING(tsk)					\
+	.numa_preferred_nid = -1,					\
+	.numa_group = NULL,						\
+	.numa_faults = NULL,
+#else
+# define INIT_NUMA_BALANCING(tsk)
+#endif
+
 /*
  *  INIT_TASK is used to set up the first task table, touch at
  * your own risk!. Base=0, limit=0x1fffff (=2MB)
@@ -237,6 +246,7 @@ extern struct task_group root_task_group;
 	INIT_CPUSET_SEQ(tsk)						\
 	INIT_RT_MUTEXES(tsk)						\
 	INIT_VTIME(tsk)							\
+	INIT_NUMA_BALANCING(tsk)					\
 }
 





             reply	other threads:[~2014-11-11  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-11  9:46 Kirill Tkhai [this message]
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