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From: Tomas Vondra <[email protected]>
To: Christoph Berg <[email protected]>
To: Tomas Vondra <[email protected]>
To: Jakub Wartak <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: failed NUMA pages inquiry status: Operation not permitted
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:27:47 +0200
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On 10/16/25 13:38, Christoph Berg wrote:
>> src/test/regress/expected/numa.out       |  13 +++
>> src/test/regress/expected/numa_1.out     |   5 +
> 
> numa_1.out is catching this error:
> 
> ERROR:  libnuma initialization failed or NUMA is not supported on this platform
> 
> This is what I'm getting when running PG18 in docker on Debian trixie
> (libnuma 2.0.19).
> 
> However, on older distributions, the error is different:
> 
> postgres =# select * from pg_shmem_allocations_numa;
> ERROR:  XX000: failed NUMA pages inquiry status: Operation not permitted
> LOCATION:  pg_get_shmem_allocations_numa, shmem.c:691
> 
> This makes the numa regression tests fail in Docker on Debian bookworm
> (libnuma 2.0.16) and older and all of the Ubuntu LTS releases.
> 

It's probably more about the kernel version. What kernels are used by
these systems?

> The attached patch makes it accept these errors, but perhaps it would
> be better to detect it in pg_numa_available().
> 

Not sure how would that work. It seems this is some sort of permission
check in numa_move_pages, that's not what pg_numa_available does. Also,
it may depending on the page queried (e.g. whether it's exclusive or
shared by multiple processes).

thanks

-- 
Tomas Vondra

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