Re: [PATCH] Fix NUMA emulation for x86_64

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Jan 25 2008 - 05:41:30 EST



* Minoru Usui <usui@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I found a small bug of NUMA emulation code for x86_64.
> (CONFIG_NUMA_EMU) If machine is non-NUMA, find_node_by_addr() should
> return NUMA_NO_NODE, but current implementation code returns existent
> maximum NUMA node number + 1. This is not existent NUMA node number.
>
> However, this behaviour does not affect NUMA emulation fortunately,
> because acpi_fake_nodes() that is caller of find_node_by_addr() gets
> pxm (proximity domain) by node_to_pxm() from non-existent NUMA node
> number that was returned by find_node_by_addr(). node_to_pxm() returns
> PXM_INVAL that means illegal or non-existent NUMA node number.

thanks, i have applied your fix to x86.git.

It seems this does not need to be backported to v2.6.24.1 because
node_to_pxm() masked the bad effects of this bug, right?

Ingo
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