Re: [Regression] 2.6.33-rc2 - pci: Commit e0cd516 causes OOPS

[David John]

On 01/02/2010 03:52 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:50 AM, David John <davidjon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Commit e0cd516 causes an null pointer dereference when reading from the
>> sysfs attributes local_cpu* on Intel machines with no ACPI NUMA
>> proximity info, since dev->numa_node gets set to -1 for all PCI devices,
>> which then gets passed to cpumask_of_node.
>>
>> The patch following this mail fixes the problem for x86. Perhaps a more
>> thorough solution would be to fix the PCI layer to set the node
>> information for devices to zero rather than -1 (Since if CONFIG_NUMA=y
>> we have node 0)? I don't know whether it is safe / correct to do this.
> 
> no.
> 
> 1. -1, mean calling code will use node that code is running on.
> 2. the system that have two or more nodes, and more peer root buses.
> if the first node doesn't have RAM installed, no node0 then.
> 
> YH
> 

Oh I see. Thanks.

Regards,
David.
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