[PATCH] arm64: numa: rework ACPI NUMA initialization
From: Lorenzo Pieralisi <hidden>
Date: 2018-07-04 13:21:13
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[+Michal] On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 12:23:08PM +0100, John Garry wrote:
On 28/06/2018 13:55, Hanjun Guo wrote:quoted
On 2018/6/25 21:05, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:quoted
Current ACPI ARM64 NUMA initialization code in acpi_numa_gicc_affinity_init() carries out NUMA nodes creation and cpu<->node mappings at the same time in the arch backend so that a single SRAT walk is needed to parse both pieces of information. This implies that the cpu<->node mappings must be stashed in an array (sized NR_CPUS) so that SMP code can later use the stashed values to avoid another SRAT table walk to set-up the early cpu<->node mappings. If the kernel is configured with a NR_CPUS value less than the actual processor entries in the SRAT (and MADT), the logic in acpi_numa_gicc_affinity_init() is broken in that the cpu<->node mapping is only carried out (and stashed for future use) only for a number of SRAT entries up to NR_CPUS, which do not necessarily correspond to the possible cpus detected at SMP initialization in acpi_map_gic_cpu_interface() (ie MADT and SRAT processor entries order is not enforced), which leaves the kernel with broken cpu<->node mappings. Furthermore, given the current ACPI NUMA code parsing logic in acpi_numa_gicc_affinity_init(), PXM domains for CPUs that are not parsed because they exceed NR_CPUS entries are not mapped to NUMA nodes (ie the PXM corresponding node is not created in the kernel) leaving the system with a broken NUMA topology. Rework the ACPI ARM64 NUMA initialization process so that the NUMA nodes creation and cpu<->node mappings are decoupled. cpu<->node mappings are moved to SMP initialization code (where they are needed), at the cost of an extra SRAT walk so that ACPI NUMA mappings can be batched before being applied, fixing current parsing pitfalls. Fixes: d8b47fca8c23 ("arm64, ACPI, NUMA: NUMA support based on SRAT and SLIT") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1527768879-88161-2-git-send-email-xiexiuqi at huawei.com Reported-by: Xie XiuQi <redacted> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <redacted> Cc: Punit Agrawal <redacted> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Will Deacon <redacted> Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> Cc: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <redacted> Cc: Jeremy Linton <redacted> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Xie XiuQi <redacted> --- arch/arm64/include/asm/acpi.h | 6 ++- arch/arm64/kernel/acpi_numa.c | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c | 39 +++++++++++++------ 3 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)Looks good to me, Acked-by: Hanjun Guo <redacted> Tested on D05 with NR_CPUS=48 (with last NUMA node boot without CPUs), the system works fine. If Xiuqi can test this patch on D06 with memory-less node, that would be more helpful.Hi Lorenzo, Thanks for this. I have noticed we now miss this log, which I think was somewhat useful: ACPI: NUMA: SRAT: cpu_to_node_map[5] is too small, may not be able to use all cpus (I tested arbitary 5 CPUs) For example, the default ARM64 defconfig specifies NR_CPUs default at 64, while some boards now have > 64 CPUs, so this info would be missed with a vanilla kernel, right?
I did that on purpose since the aim of this patch is to remove that restriction, we should not be limited by the NR_CPUS when we parse the SRAT, that's what this patch does.
Also, please note that we now have this log: [ 0.390565] smp: Brought up 4 nodes, 5 CPUs while before we had: [ 0.390561] smp: Brought up 1 node, 5 CPUs Maybe my understanding is wrong, but I find this misleading as only 1 node was "Brought up".
Well, that's exactly where the problem lies. This patch allows the kernel to inizialize NUMA nodes associated with CPUs that are not "brought up" with the current kernel owing to the NR_CPUS restrictions. So I think this patch still does the right thing. I reworked the code mechanically since it looked wrong to me but I have to confess I do not understand the NUMA internals in-depth either. AFAICS the original problem was that, by making the NUMA parsing dependent on the NR_CPUS we were not "bringing online" NUMA nodes that are associated with CPUs and this caused memory allocation failures. If this patch fixes the problem that means that we actually "bring up" the required NUMA nodes (and create zonelist for them) correctly. So the update smp: log above should be right. I CC'ed Michal since he knows core NUMA internals much better than I do, thoughts appreciated, thanks. Lorenzo
But the patch fixes our crash on D06: Tested-by: John Garry <redacted> Thanks very much, Johnquoted
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