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| author | Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> | 2007-06-08 13:46:46 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-06-08 17:23:32 -0700 |
| commit | a210906c1b791af1434323f69427286039c9c8b9 (patch) | |
| tree | 17f3deeda2c7c6972b9a72113a14571c2cabaae7 /Documentation | |
| parent | 9739ed1c8eafd554788d8e2ba09847b5718a34e7 (diff) | |
mount -t tmpfs -o mpol=: check nodes online
Randy Dunlap reports that a tmpfs, mounted with NUMA mpol= specifying an
offline node, crashes as soon as data is allocated upon it. Now restrict it
to online nodes, where before it restricted to MAX_NUMNODES.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Tested-and-acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt index 6dd050878a2..145e4408635 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt @@ -94,10 +94,10 @@ largest node numbers in the range. For example, mpol=bind:0-3,5,7,9-15 Note that trying to mount a tmpfs with an mpol option will fail if the running kernel does not support NUMA; and will fail if its nodelist -specifies a node >= MAX_NUMNODES. If your system relies on that tmpfs -being mounted, but from time to time runs a kernel built without NUMA -capability (perhaps a safe recovery kernel), or configured to support -fewer nodes, then it is advisable to omit the mpol option from automatic +specifies a node which is not online. If your system relies on that +tmpfs being mounted, but from time to time runs a kernel built without +NUMA capability (perhaps a safe recovery kernel), or with fewer nodes +online, then it is advisable to omit the mpol option from automatic mount options. It can be added later, when the tmpfs is already mounted on MountPoint, by 'mount -o remount,mpol=Policy:NodeList MountPoint'. @@ -121,4 +121,4 @@ RAM/SWAP in 10240 inodes and it is only accessible by root. Author: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>, 1.12.01 Updated: - Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, 19 February 2006 + Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, 4 June 2007 |