Re: [PATCH 1/2][RESEND] x86/pci/amd: Restore early_fill_mp_bus_to_node

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Andreas Herrmann
<andreas.herrmann3@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 10:35:05AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Andreas Herrmann
>> <andreas.herrmann3@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:33:17AM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Andreas Herrmann
>> >> <andreas.herrmann3@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > Once upon a time this function was overloaded with quirky stuff to fix
>> >> > resource detection on systems w/ _CRS defects (seems that some Sun and
>> >> > HP systems were affected).
>> >> >
>> >> > See commit 30a18d6c3f1e774de656ebd8ff219d53e2ba4029
>> >> > (x86: multi pci root bus with different io resource range, on 64-bit)
>> >> >
>> >> > Restore the old function and thus decouple it from the quirk that is
>> >> > CPU family specific (e.g. it won't work on AMD family 15h CPUs). BTW,
>> >> > I assume that the _CRS stuff is working on current systems.
>> >> >
>> >> > This is required to properly initilize the numa_node information of
>> >> > existing PCI busses and associated devices.
>> >>
>> >> I applied some of Yinghai's patches that also touch this area.  Can
>> >> you refresh these so they apply on top of my "next" branch
>> >> (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci.git next)?
>> >
>> > Arrgh, will adapt my patch and resend it (asap).
>> >
>> >> Can you also be more specific about what these patches fix?
>> >
>> >> My understanding is that amd_bus.c (1) sets NUMA info with
>> >> set_mp_bus_to_node() and (2) figures out MMIO and I/O port apertures,
>> >> which are only used when blind probing and when ignoring _CRS.
>> >>
>> >> It seems like the main change in this patch is that we skip (2)
>> >> completely when family >= 0x11, and I don't understand what that could
>> >> fix.
>> >
>> > The patch restores a very old function that was used to detect the
>> > nearest node for a PCI bus, so yes it's used to do (1). IMHO this
>> > function was totally screwed up with Yinghai's code to do (2). It
>> > seems that Sun has (had?) some systems where (2) was req'd. I don't
>> > care about this part. But I'd like to do (1) on all AMD CPU NUMA
>> > systems.
>>
>> Thanks for the explanation.  But I'm afraid I'm still confused.
>>
>> First, it sounds like you're trying to change the way we do part (1),
>> i.e., the set_mp_bus_to_node() calls, but I think the effect of your
>> patch is to stop doing part (2) in some cases.
>>
>> Second, I am pretty sure that the current early_fill_mp_bus_info()
>> (before your patch) does the exact same set_mp_bus_to_node() calls as
>> your early_fill_mp_bus_to_node() does.
>
>
> I want to do (1) on all AMD CPUs that might be used in NUMA systems.
>
> What's done for (2) is very specific to certain AMD CPU families --
> some of the register accesses are wrong/incomplete for newer AMD
> CPUs. Furhtermore _CRS should provide the required info. I really
> don't want to extend all the quirky stuff in (2) for future AMD CPUs.

I'm all in favor of limiting part (2) to older AMD CPUs.  I certainly
don't want to maintain it for future CPUs.

>> Finally, on all systems with ACPI, the set_mp_bus_to_node() call in
>> pci_acpi_scan_root() should be doing what you need.  In fact, that
>> call happens later, so it should be overwriting the information filled
>> in by amd_bus.c.  If there's something wrong in this ACPI path, the
>> most likely cause is a BIOS defect, such as  a missing _PXM method on
>> the PNP0A03/0A08 host bridge device.
>
> Good point. I'll check what's wrong in this ACPI path.

I hope you find something, especially if it's a bug in the Linux code
that interprets  the NUMA info.  Then we could fix that and limit both
parts to older CPUs.

Bjorn
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