Re: [PATCH for.38] x86, numa: Fix numa_emulation code with node0without RAM

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Fri Mar 04 2011 - 08:49:16 EST


On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 03:14:58PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>
> On one system that does not have RAM on node0.
>
> when numa_emulation is compiled in, and
> 1. boot system without numa=fake...
> 2. or boot system with numa=fake=128 to make emulation fail
>
> will get:
>
> [ 0.076025] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [ 0.080004] kernel BUG at arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c:788!
> [ 0.080004] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
> [ 0.080004] last sysfs file:
> [ 0.080004] CPU 0
> [ 0.080004] Modules linked in:
> [ 0.080004]
> [ 0.080004] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.38-rc6-yh-00212-g3e1f235 #1 Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4240/Sun Fire X4240
> [ 0.080004] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff81cd1d8c>] [<ffffffff81cd1d8c>] numa_add_cpu+0x8a/0x156
> ...
> [ 0.080004] Call Trace:
> [ 0.080004] [<ffffffff81ccd1cd>] identify_cpu+0x2d7/0x2df
> [ 0.080004] [<ffffffff827e13e9>] identify_boot_cpu+0x10/0x30
> [ 0.080004] [<ffffffff827e15f3>] check_bugs+0x9/0x2d
> [ 0.080004] [<ffffffff827d9bcb>] start_kernel+0x3bf/0x3d9
> [ 0.080004] [<ffffffff827d92a6>] x86_64_start_reservations+0xb6/0xba
> [ 0.080004] [<ffffffff827d93a1>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xf7/0xfe
> [ 0.080004] Code: 74 06 48 8d 04 90 eb 0f 48 c7 c0 10 d9 00 00 48 03 04 d5 50 e1 5f 82 8b 00 83 f8 ff 74 0d 0f a3 05 7a f9 92 00 19 d2 85 d2 75 02 <0f> 0b 48 98 31 db 48 8b 04 c5 d0 ec 5f 82 48 8b 90 90 af 00 00
>
> need to used early_cpu_to_node directly, because cpu_to_apicid and apicid_to_node
> will return node0 that is not onlined.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

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tejun
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