Re: [PATCH V7 3/3] hotplug/cpu: Fix crash with memoryless nodes

On powerpc systems with shared configurations of CPUs and memory and
memoryless nodes at boot, an event ordering problem was observed on
a SLES12 build platforms with the hot-add of CPUs to the memoryless
nodes.

* The most common error occurred when the memory SLAB driver attempted
  to reference the memoryless node to which a CPU was being added
  before the kernel had finished initializing all of the data structures
  for the CPU and exited 'device_online' under DLPAR/hot-add.

  Normally the memoryless node would be initialized through the call
  path device_online ... arch_update_cpu_topology ... find_cpu_nid
  ...  try_online_node.  This patch ensures that the powerpc node will
  be initialized as early as possible, even if it was memoryless and
  CPU-less at the point when we are trying to hot-add a new CPU to it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Bringmann <redacted>
---
Changes in V7:
  -- Make function find_cpu_nid() externally visible/usable so that
     it may be used from hotplug-cpu.c
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c                       |    3 ++-
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c |    3 +++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
index 163f4cc..d6d4f7c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c

@@ -1310,7 +1310,7 @@ static long vphn_get_associativity(unsigned long cpu,
 	return rc;
 }

-static inline int find_cpu_nid(int cpu)
+int find_cpu_nid(int cpu)
 {
 	__be32 associativity[VPHN_ASSOC_BUFSIZE] = {0};
 	int new_nid;

@@ -1343,6 +1343,7 @@ static inline int find_cpu_nid(int cpu)
 #endif
 	}

+	printk(KERN_INFO "%s:%d cpu %d nid %d\n", __FUNCTION__, __LINE__, cpu, new_nid);

 	return new_nid;
 }

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c
index a7d14aa7..df8c732 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/hotplug-cpu.c

@@ -340,6 +340,8 @@ static void pseries_remove_processor(struct device_node *np)
 	cpu_maps_update_done();
 }

+extern int find_cpu_nid(int cpu);
+
 static int dlpar_online_cpu(struct device_node *dn)
 {
 	int rc = 0;

@@ -364,6 +366,7 @@ static int dlpar_online_cpu(struct device_node *dn)
 					!= CPU_STATE_OFFLINE);
 			cpu_maps_update_done();
 			timed_topology_update(1);
+			find_cpu_nid(cpu);