Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] sched/topology: Improve load balancing on AMD EPYC

[Matt Fleming]

On Mon, 07 Oct, at 08:28:16AM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> 
> This patch causes build errors on systems where NUMA does not depend on SMP,
> for example MIPS and PPC. For example, building mips:ip27_defconfig with SMP
> disabled results in
> 
> mips-linux-ld: mm/page_alloc.o: in function `get_page_from_freelist':
> page_alloc.c:(.text+0x5018): undefined reference to `node_reclaim_distance'
> mips-linux-ld: page_alloc.c:(.text+0x5020): undefined reference to `node_reclaim_distance'
> mips-linux-ld: page_alloc.c:(.text+0x5028): undefined reference to `node_reclaim_distance'
> mips-linux-ld: page_alloc.c:(.text+0x5040): undefined reference to `node_reclaim_distance'
> Makefile:1074: recipe for target 'vmlinux' failed
> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> 
> I have seen a similar problem with one of my PPC test builds.
> 
> powerpc64-linux-ld: mm/page_alloc.o:(.toc+0x18): undefined reference to `node_reclaim_distance'

Thanks for this Guenter.

So, the way I've fixed this same issue for ia64 was to make NUMA
depend on SMP. Does that seem like a suitable solution for both PPC
and MIPS?