Re: [PATCH v2] NUMA: Early use of cpu_to_node() returns 0 instead of the correct node id

[Lameter, Christopher]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2024, Huang Shijie wrote:

> During the kernel booting, the generic cpu_to_node() is called too early in
> arm64, powerpc and riscv when CONFIG_NUMA is enabled.
>
> For arm64/powerpc/riscv, there are at least four places in the common code
> where the generic cpu_to_node() is called before it is initialized:
> 	   1.) early_trace_init()         in kernel/trace/trace.c
> 	   2.) sched_init()               in kernel/sched/core.c
> 	   3.) init_sched_fair_class()    in kernel/sched/fair.c
> 	   4.) workqueue_init_early()     in kernel/workqueue.c
>
> In order to fix the bug, the patch changes generic cpu_to_node to
> function pointer, and export it for kernel modules.
> Introduce smp_prepare_boot_cpu_start() to wrap the original
> smp_prepare_boot_cpu(), and set cpu_to_node with early_cpu_to_node.
> Introduce smp_prepare_cpus_done() to wrap the original smp_prepare_cpus(),
> and set the cpu_to_node to formal _cpu_to_node().

Would  you please fix this cleanly without a function pointer?

What I think needs to be done is a patch series.

1. Instrument cpu_to_node so that some warning is issued if it is used too 
early. Preloading the array with NUMA_NO_NODE would allow us to do that.

2. Implement early_cpu_to_node on platforms that currently do not have it.

3. A series of patches that fix each place where cpu_to_node is used too 
early.