Re: [RFC 8/8] x86_64: Support for new UV apic

From: Jack Steiner
Date: Tue Mar 25 2008 - 13:57:28 EST


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:25:34AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Jack Steiner <steiner@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > unsigned int get_apic_id(void)
> > {
> > - return (apic_read(APIC_ID) >> 24) & 0xFFu;
> > + unsigned int id;
> > +
> > + preempt_disable();
> > + id = apic_read(APIC_ID);
> > + if (uv_system_type >= UV_X2APIC)
> > + id |= __get_cpu_var(x2apic_extra_bits);
> > + else
> > + id = (id >> 24) & 0xFFu;;
> > + preempt_enable();
> > + return id;
>
> Really caller should have done preempt_disable(), otherwise
> the value can be wrong as soon as you return.
>
> Better probably to just WARN_ON if preemption is on

Will do (assuming it doesn't ripple thru too much code eliminating
warnings - doesn't look bad at first glance).


>
> (just be careful it does not trigger in oopses and machine checks)
>
> > +
> > +DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct uv_hub_info_s, __uv_hub_info);
> > +EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(__uv_hub_info);
>
> GPL export too?

Yes.


>
> > +
> > +struct uv_blade_info *uv_blade_info;
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(uv_blade_info);
> > +
> > +short *uv_node_to_blade;
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(uv_node_to_blade);
> > +
> > +short *uv_cpu_to_blade;
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(uv_cpu_to_blade);
> > +
> > +short uv_possible_blades;
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(uv_possible_blades);
> > +
> > +/* Start with all IRQs pointing to boot CPU. IRQ balancing will shift them. */
> > +/* Probably incorrect for UV ZZZ */
>
> Actually it should be correct. Except for UV you likely really need a
> NUMA aware irqbalanced. I used to have some old very hackish patches
> to implement that in irqbalanced, but never pushed it because the
> systems I was working on didn't really need it.

Deleted comment.

>
>
> > +
> > +static void uv_send_IPI_one(int cpu, int vector)
> > +{
> > + unsigned long val, apicid;
> > + int nasid;
> > +
> > + apicid = per_cpu(x86_cpu_to_apicid, cpu); /* ZZZ - cache node-local ? */
>
> Instead of doing that it might be better to implement __read_mostly per CPU variables
> (should not be very hard)

Added to list of loose-ends that need addressing.


>
> > +static void uv_send_IPI_mask(cpumask_t mask, int vector)
> > +{
> > + unsigned long flags;
> > + unsigned int cpu;
> > +
> > + local_irq_save(flags);
> > + for (cpu = 0; cpu < NR_CPUS; ++cpu)
> > + if (cpu_isset(cpu, mask))
> > + uv_send_IPI_one(cpu, vector);
> > + local_irq_restore(flags);
>
> This could disable interrupts for a long time could't it? Really needed?

No, not sure why I did that. Deleted the irq disable...


>
>
> > + bytes = sizeof(struct uv_blade_info) * uv_num_possible_blades();
> > + uv_blade_info = alloc_bootmem_pages(bytes);
> > + memset(uv_blade_info, 255, bytes);
>
> 255? Strange poison value.

Deleted the memset. Should not be depending on poison values. Was useful
in debugging but it has outlived it's usefulness.


>
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux.orig/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile 2008-03-21 15:36:35.000000000 -0500
> > +++ linux/arch/x86/kernel/Makefile 2008-03-21 15:49:38.000000000 -0500
> > @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ scx200-y += scx200_32.o
> > ###
> > # 64 bit specific files
> > ifeq ($(CONFIG_X86_64),y)
> > - obj-y += genapic_64.o genapic_flat_64.o
> > + obj-y += genapic_64.o genapic_flat_64.o genx2apic_uv_x.o
>
> Definitely should be a CONFIG

Not sure that I understand why. The overhead of UV is minimal & we want UV
enabled in all distro kernels. OTOH, small embedded systems probably want to
eliminate every last bit of unneeded code.

Might make sense to have a config option. Thoughts????


>
> > @@ -418,6 +419,9 @@ static int __cpuinit wakeup_secondary_vi
> > unsigned long send_status, accept_status = 0;
> > int maxlvt, num_starts, j;
> >
> > + if (get_uv_system_type() == UV_NON_UNIQUE_APIC)
> > + return uv_wakeup_secondary(phys_apicid, start_rip);
> > +
>
> This should be probably factored properly (didn't Jeremy have smp_ops
> for this some time ago) so that even the default case is a call.

By factored, do you means something like:
is_uv_legacy_system()
is_us_non_unique_apicid_system()
...

Or maybe:
is_uv_system_type(x) # where x is UV_NON_UNIQUE_APIC, etc


> -Andi

Thanks for the careful review.

--- jack
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