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Kirill Tkhai committed d8b163c4c65
sched/numa: Init numa balancing fields of init_task
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>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sergey Dyasly <dserrg@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415699189.15631.6.camel@tkhai
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>