RE: [PATCH 1/2] drivers/dax/kmem: use default numa_mem_id if target_node is invalid

[Justin He (Arm Technology China)]

Hi
Ping.
The target_node will be -1 if numa disabled. IIUC, it is a generic issue, not only on arm64.


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Cheers,
Justin (Jia He)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jia He <justin.he@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: 2019年8月16日 19:19
> To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>; Vishal Verma
> <vishal.l.verma@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx>; Dave Jiang
> <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx>; linux-nvdimm@xxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Justin He (Arm Technology China)
> <Justin.He@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] drivers/dax/kmem: use default numa_mem_id if
> target_node is invalid
>
> In some platforms(e.g arm64 guest), the NFIT info might not be ready.
> Then target_node might be -1. But if there is a default numa_mem_id(),
> we can use it to avoid unnecessary fatal EINVL error.
>
> devm_memremap_pages() also uses this logic if nid is invalid, we can
> keep the same page with it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jia He <justin.he@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/dax/kmem.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/dax/kmem.c b/drivers/dax/kmem.c
> index a02318c6d28a..ad62d551d94e 100644
> --- a/drivers/dax/kmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/dax/kmem.c
> @@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ int dev_dax_kmem_probe(struct device *dev)
>        */
>       numa_node = dev_dax->target_node;
>       if (numa_node < 0) {
> -             dev_warn(dev, "rejecting DAX region %pR with invalid
> node: %d\n",
> -                      res, numa_node);
> -             return -EINVAL;
> +             dev_warn(dev, "DAX %pR with invalid node, assume it
> as %d\n",
> +                             res, numa_node, numa_mem_id());
> +             numa_node = numa_mem_id();
>       }
>
>       /* Hotplug starting at the beginning of the next block: */
> --
> 2.17.1

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