Re: aarch64 ACPI boot regressed by commit 7ba5f605f3a0 ("arm64/numa: remove the limitation that cpu0 must bind to node0")

From: Laszlo Ersek
Date: Fri Oct 14 2016 - 12:23:19 EST


On 10/14/16 17:42, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 05:27:58PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>> On 10/14/16 17:01, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe the code I
>>> tried to analyze in this email was never *meant* to associate CPU#0 with
>>> any NUMA node at all (not even node 0); instead, other code -- for
>>> example code removed by 7ba5f605f3a0 -- was meant to perform that
>>> association.
>>
>> Staring a bit more at the code, this looks very likely; in acpi_map_gic_cpu_interface() we have
>>
>>> /* Check if GICC structure of boot CPU is available in the MADT */
>>> if (cpu_logical_map(0) == hwid) {
>>> if (bootcpu_valid) {
>>> pr_err("duplicate boot CPU MPIDR: 0x%llx in MADT\n",
>>> hwid);
>>> return;
>>> }
>>> bootcpu_valid = true;
>>> return;
>>> }
>>
>> which means that this callback function (for parsing the GICC
>> structures in the MADT) expects to find the boot processor as well.
>>
>> Upon finding the boot processor, we set bootcpu_valid to true, and
>> that's it -- no association with any NUMA node, and no incrementing of
>> "cpu_count".
>
> Yes, because that's to check the MADT contains the boot cpu hwid.
>
> Does this help (compile tested only) ?
>
> -- >8 --
> 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 @@ static int __init smp_cpu_setup(int cpu)
> return;
> }
> bootcpu_valid = true;
> + early_map_cpu_to_node(0, acpi_numa_get_nid(0, hwid));
> return;
> }
>
>

Your patch applies to the tree at v4.8-14604-g29fbff8698fc, but the function the hunk modifies is not smp_cpu_setup(), it is acpi_map_gic_cpu_interface():

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> index d3f151cfd4a1..8507703dabe4 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;
> }
>

Anyway, your patch works with both the two-node NUMA configuration Drew suggested for testing, and with the single-node config that I originally used for the bisection. Therefore:

Tested-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you very much for the quick bugfix! And, I think your patch (when you send it for real) should carry

Fixes: 7ba5f605f3a0d9495aad539eeb8346d726dfc183

too, because it supplies the cpu#0<->node#xxx association that 7ba5f605f3a0 removed not just for DT, but also for ACPI.

Cheers!
Laszlo