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mm, debug: test for online nid when allocating on single node 

Calling alloc_pages_exact_node() means the allocation only passes the
zonelist of a single node into the page allocator.  If that node isn't
online, it's zonelist may never have been initialized causing a strange
oops that may not immediately be clear.

I recently debugged an issue where node 0 wasn't online and an allocator
was passing 0 to alloc_pages_exact_node() and it resulted in a NULL
pointer on zonelist->_zoneref.  If CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is enabled, though, it
would be nice to catch this a bit earlier.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Rientjes 2012-01-10 15:07:38 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent ad8a1b558e
commit f6d7e0cb3e
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@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ static inline struct page *alloc_pages_node(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask,
static inline struct page *alloc_pages_exact_node(int nid, gfp_t gfp_mask,
unsigned int order)
{
VM_BUG_ON(nid < 0 || nid >= MAX_NUMNODES);
VM_BUG_ON(nid < 0 || nid >= MAX_NUMNODES || !node_online(nid));
return __alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order, node_zonelist(nid, gfp_mask));
}