From: Yasunori Goto When a cpu is onlined on memory-less-node box, kernel panics due to touch NULL pointer of pgdat->kswapd. Current kswapd runs only nodes which have memory. So, calling of set_cpus_allowed() is not necessary for memory-less node. This is fix for it. Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/vmscan.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~fix-panic-of-cpu-online-with-memory-less-node mm/vmscan.c --- a/mm/vmscan.c~fix-panic-of-cpu-online-with-memory-less-node +++ a/mm/vmscan.c @@ -1697,9 +1697,11 @@ static int __devinit cpu_callback(struct { pg_data_t *pgdat; cpumask_t mask; + int nid; if (action == CPU_ONLINE || action == CPU_ONLINE_FROZEN) { - for_each_online_pgdat(pgdat) { + for_each_node_state(nid, N_HIGH_MEMORY) { + pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid); mask = node_to_cpumask(pgdat->node_id); if (any_online_cpu(mask) != NR_CPUS) /* One of our CPUs online: restore mask */ _