Re: [PATCH] arm64, numa: Add cpu_to_node() implementation.

[Robert Richter]

On 20.09.16 19:32:34, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> On 09/20/2016 06:43 PM, Robert Richter wrote:

> >Instead we need to make sure the set_*numa_node() functions are called
> >earlier before secondary cpus are booted. My suggested change for that
> >is this:
> >
> >
> >diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> >index d93d43352504..952365c2f100 100644
> >--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> >+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> >@@ -204,7 +204,6 @@ int __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, struct task_struct *idle)
> >  static void smp_store_cpu_info(unsigned int cpuid)
> >  {
> >  	store_cpu_topology(cpuid);
> >-	numa_store_cpu_info(cpuid);
> >  }
> >
> >  /*
> >@@ -719,6 +718,7 @@ void __init smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int max_cpus)
> >  			continue;
> >
> >  		set_cpu_present(cpu, true);
> >+		numa_store_cpu_info(cpu);
> >  	}
> >  }
> 
> We tried a similar approach which add numa_store_cpu_info() in
> early_map_cpu_to_node(), and remove it from smp_store_cpu_info,
> but didn't work for us, we will try your approach to see if works.

Calling it in early_map_cpu_to_node() is probably too early since
setup_node_to_cpumask_map() is called in numa_init() afterwards
overwriting it again.

Actually, early_map_cpu_to_node() is used to temporarily store the
mapping until it can be setup in numa_store_cpu_info().

-Robert