Ravikiran G Thirumalai <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 06:43:05PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> > Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately I must confirm that it does not fix problem. But it pointed
> > out to me another thing - proc_inode_cache stuff is put into caches
> > BEFORE this code is executed. So if anything in mm/slab.c relies
> > on node_to_mask[] being valid (and if it relies on some other things
> > which are set this late), it probably won't work.
>
> The tests Alok carried out on Petr's box confirmed that cpu_to_node[BP]
> is not setup early enough by numa_init_array due to the x86_64 changes in
> 2.6.14-rc*, and unfortunately set wrongly by the work around code in
> numa_init_array(). cpu_to_node[0] gets set with 1 early and later gets set
> properly to 0 during identify_cpu() when all cpus are brought up, but
> confusing the numa slab in the process.
>
> Here is a quick fix for this. The right fix obviously is to have
> cpu_to_node[bsp] setup early for numa_init_array(). The following patch
> will fix the problem now, and the code can stay on even when cpu_to_node{BP]
> gets fixed early correctly.
>
> Thanks to Petr for access to his box.
>
> Signed off by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <[email protected]>
>
> Index: slab-x86_64-fix-2.6.14-rc2/arch/x86_64/mm/numa.c
> ===================================================================
> --- slab-x86_64-fix-2.6.14-rc2.orig/arch/x86_64/mm/numa.c 2005-09-29 20:39:25.000000000 -0700
> +++ slab-x86_64-fix-2.6.14-rc2/arch/x86_64/mm/numa.c 2005-09-29 21:38:05.000000000 -0700
> @@ -167,15 +167,14 @@
> mapping. To avoid this fill in the mapping for all possible
> CPUs, as the number of CPUs is not known yet.
> We round robin the existing nodes. */
> - rr = 0;
> + rr = first_node(node_online_map);
> for (i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; i++) {
> if (cpu_to_node[i] != NUMA_NO_NODE)
> continue;
> + cpu_to_node[i] = rr;
> rr = next_node(rr, node_online_map);
> if (rr == MAX_NUMNODES)
> rr = first_node(node_online_map);
> - cpu_to_node[i] = rr;
> - rr++;
> }
>
> }
Is this fix independent from
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.14-rc2/2.6.14-rc2-mm2/broken-out/x86_64-fix-the-bp-node_to_cpumask.patch
?
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