Re: [PATCH] x86: numa: drop ZONE_ALIGN

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 14:57:16 -0700 (PDT)
David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> 
> > > > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/numa.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/numa.h
> > > > index 4064aca..01b493e 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/numa.h
> > > > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/numa.h
> > > > @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
> > > >  #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> > > >  
> > > >  #define NR_NODE_MEMBLKS		(MAX_NUMNODES*2)
> > > > -#define ZONE_ALIGN (1UL << (MAX_ORDER+PAGE_SHIFT))
> > > >  
> > > >  /*
> > > >   * Too small node sizes may confuse the VM badly. Usually they
> > > > diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
> > > > index 1d045f9..69f6362 100644
> > > > --- a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
> > > > +++ b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
> > > > @@ -200,8 +200,6 @@ static void __init setup_node_data(int nid, u64 start, u64 end)
> > > >  	if (end && (end - start) < NODE_MIN_SIZE)
> > > >  		return;
> > > >  
> > > > -	start = roundup(start, ZONE_ALIGN);
> > > > -
> > > >  	printk(KERN_INFO "Initmem setup node %d [mem %#010Lx-%#010Lx]\n",
> > > >  	       nid, start, end - 1);
> > > >  
> > > 
> > > What ensures this start address is page aligned from the BIOS?
> > 
> > To which start address do you refer to?
> 
> The start address displayed in the dmesg is not page aligned anymore with 
> your change, correct?  

I have to check that but I don't expect this to happen because my
understanding of the code is that what's rounded up here is just discarded
in free_area_init_node(). Am I wrong?

> acpi_parse_memory_affinity() does no 
> transformations on the table, the base address is coming strictly from the 
> SRAT and there is no page alignment requirement in the ACPI specification.  
> NODE_DATA(nid)->node_start_pfn will be correct because it does the shift 
> for you, but it still seems you want to at least align to PAGE_SIZE here. 

I do agree we need to align to PAGE_SIZE, but I'm not sure where we should
do it.
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