From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>, Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Daniel Bilik <daniel.bilik@neosystem.cz>
Subject: Re: Crashes with 874bbfe600a6 in 3.18.25
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 15:54:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160205205456.GG4401@htj.duckdns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1454705231.3819.151.camel@gmail.com>
Hello, Mike.
On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 09:47:11PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> That very point is what makes it wrong for the workqueue code to ever
> target a work item. The instant it does target selection, correctness
> may be at stake, it doesn't know, thus it must assume the full onus,
> which it has neither the knowledge not the time to do. That's how we
> exploded on node = -1, trying to help out the user by doing his job,
I have a hard time seeing the NUMA_NO_NODE bug as something that
indicative of anything. It is a dumb bug from mm side which puts
everyone using cpu_to_node() at risk.
> but then not doing the whole job. IMHO, a better plan is to let the
> user screw it up all by himself.
What are you suggesting?
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-05 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-20 21:19 Crashes with 874bbfe600a6 in 3.18.25 Jan Kara
2016-01-20 21:39 ` Shaohua Li
2016-01-21 9:52 ` Jan Kara
2016-01-21 13:29 ` Sasha Levin
2016-01-22 1:10 ` Sasha Levin
2016-01-22 16:09 ` Tejun Heo
2016-01-23 2:20 ` Ben Hutchings
2016-01-23 16:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-01-26 9:34 ` Jan Kara
2016-01-26 9:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-01-26 11:14 ` Petr Mladek
2016-01-26 13:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-03 9:35 ` Jiri Slaby
2016-02-03 10:41 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-03 12:28 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-03 16:24 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-03 16:48 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-03 16:59 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-04 6:37 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-04 7:40 ` Michal Hocko
2016-02-03 17:01 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-03 17:06 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-03 17:13 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-03 17:15 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-04 2:00 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-05 16:49 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-05 20:47 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-05 20:54 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2016-02-05 20:59 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-05 21:06 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-06 13:07 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2016-02-07 5:19 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-07 5:59 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-09 15:31 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-09 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-09 16:50 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-09 17:04 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-09 17:54 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-09 17:56 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-09 18:02 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-09 18:27 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-09 17:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-09 17:51 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-09 18:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-04 10:04 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-04 10:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-04 11:07 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-04 11:20 ` Jan Kara
2016-02-04 16:39 ` Daniel Bilik
2016-02-05 2:40 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-05 8:11 ` Daniel Bilik
2016-02-05 8:33 ` Mike Galbraith
2016-02-03 18:46 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-03 19:01 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-03 19:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-02-03 19:15 ` Tejun Heo
2016-02-05 5:44 ` Mike Galbraith
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20160205205456.GG4401@htj.duckdns.org \
--to=tj@kernel.org \
--cc=ben@decadent.org.uk \
--cc=daniel.bilik@neosystem.cz \
--cc=jack@suse.cz \
--cc=jslaby@suse.cz \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mhocko@kernel.org \
--cc=pmladek@suse.com \
--cc=sasha.levin@oracle.com \
--cc=shli@fb.com \
--cc=stable@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
--cc=umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).