Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm/fake-numa: allow later numa node hotplug

[David Hildenbrand]

On 06.01.25 13:06, Bruno Faccini wrote:
> Current fake-numa implementation prevents new Numa
> nodes to be later hot-plugged by drivers.
> A common symptom of this limitation is the
> "node <X> was absent from the node_possible_map"
> message by associated warning in mm/memory_hotplug.c:
> add_memory_resource().
> This comes from the lack of remapping in both
> pxm_to_node_map[] and node_to_pxm_map[] tables
> to take fake-numa nodes into account and thus
> triggers collisions with original and physical nodes
> only-mapping that had been determined from BIOS tables.
> This patch fixes this by doing the necessary node-ids
> translation in both pxm_to_node_map[]/node_to_pxm_map[]
> tables.
> node_distance[] table has also been fixed accordingly.

You're allowed to use up to 72 chars per line, and adding some empty 
lines might make this easier to read.

Did you forget to CC ACPI folks + mailing list?

> Signed-off-by: Bruno Faccini <bfaccini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/acpi/numa/srat.c     | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   include/acpi/acpi_numa.h     |  5 +++
>   include/linux/numa_memblks.h |  3 ++
>   mm/numa_emulation.c          | 45 ++++++++++++++++---
>   mm/numa_memblks.c            |  2 +-
>   5 files changed, 133 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/numa/srat.c b/drivers/acpi/numa/srat.c
> index bec0dcd1f9c3..59fffe34c9d0 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/numa/srat.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/numa/srat.c
> @@ -81,6 +81,92 @@ int acpi_map_pxm_to_node(int pxm)
>   }
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_map_pxm_to_node);
>   
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_EMU
> +/*
> + * Take max_nid - 1 fake-numa nodes into account in both
> + * pxm_to_node_map()/node_to_pxm_map[] tables.
> + */

Having the fake-numa stuff in here looks quite hacky; but I'm no expert, 
so I'll let ACPI folks comment (on CC) on the details.


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Cheers,

David / dhildenb