Re: [PATCH] arm64: kernel: numa: fix ACPI boot cpu numa node mapping

From: Laszlo Ersek
Date: Mon Oct 17 2016 - 10:32:51 EST


On 10/17/16 16:18, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> Commit 7ba5f605f3a0 ("arm64/numa: remove the limitation that cpu0 must
> bind to node0") removed the numa cpu<->node mapping restriction whereby
> logical cpu 0 always corresponds to numa node 0; removing the
> restriction was correct, in that it does not really exist in practice
> but the commit only updated the early mapping of logical cpu 0 to its
> real numa node for the DT boot path, missing the ACPI one, leading to
> boot failures on ACPI systems with numa enabled owing to missing
> node<->cpu map for logical cpu 0.

Small correction request: please drop the "with numa enabled"
qualification. The bug breaks ACPI boot on numa-disabled systems as well
(i.e., where there's only one node, and there are no NUMA-related ACPI
tables (like SRAT) and objects (like _PXM in the DSDT)).

Many thanks!
Laszlo

>
> Fix the issue by updating the ACPI boot path with code that carries out
> the early cpu<->node mapping also for the boot cpu (ie cpu 0), mirroring
> what is currently done in the DT boot path.
>
> Fixes: 7ba5f605f3a0 ("arm64/numa: remove the limitation that cpu0 must bind to node0")
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Jones <drjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> index d3f151c..8507703 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -544,6 +544,7 @@ acpi_map_gic_cpu_interface(struct acpi_madt_generic_interrupt *processor)
> return;
> }
> bootcpu_valid = true;
> + early_map_cpu_to_node(0, acpi_numa_get_nid(0, hwid));
> return;
> }
>
>