There are several things that can go wrong in the current code on NUMA
systems, especially if not all nodes are online all the time:
- If the identifiers of the online nodes do not form a single contiguous
block starting at zero, wq->wqes will be too small, and OOB memory
accesses will occur e.g. in the loop in io_wq_create().
- If a node comes online between the call to num_online_nodes() and the
for_each_node() loop in io_wq_create(), an OOB write will occur.
- If a node comes online between io_wq_create() and io_wq_enqueue(), a
lookup is performed for an element that doesn't exist, and an OOB read
will probably occur.
Fix it by:
- using nr_node_ids instead of num_online_nodes() for the allocation size;
nr_node_ids is calculated by setup_nr_node_ids() to be bigger than the
highest node ID that could possibly come online at some point, even if
those nodes' identifiers are not a contiguous block
- creating workers for all possible CPUs, not just all online ones
This is basically what the normal workqueue code also does, as far as I can
tell.