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From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
To: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	anton@samba.org, David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	benh@kernel.crashing.org, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	tony.luck@intel.com
Subject: Re: Node 0 not necessary for powerpc?
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 09:16:27 -0500 (CDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1405210915170.7859@gentwo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140519182400.GM8941@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Mon, 19 May 2014, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:

> I'm seeing a panic at boot with this change on an LPAR which actually
> has no Node 0. Here's what I think is happening:
>
> start_kernel
>     ...
>     -> setup_per_cpu_areas
>         -> pcpu_embed_first_chunk
>             -> pcpu_fc_alloc
>                 -> ___alloc_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(cpu_to_node(cpu), ...
>     -> smp_prepare_boot_cpu
>         -> set_numa_node(boot_cpuid)
>
> So we panic on the NODE_DATA call. It seems that ia64, at least, uses
> pcpu_alloc_first_chunk rather than embed. x86 has some code to handle
> early calls of cpu_to_node (early_cpu_to_node) and sets the mapping for
> all CPUs in setup_per_cpu_areas().

Maybe we can switch ia64 too embed? Tejun: Why are there these
dependencies?

> Thoughts? Does that mean we need something similar to x86 for powerpc?

Tejun is the expert in this area. CCing him.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-21 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-11 19:56 Nishanth Aravamudan
2014-03-12  2:02 ` David Rientjes
2014-03-13 16:48   ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2014-03-12 13:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-03-13 16:49   ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2014-05-19 18:24     ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2014-05-21 14:16       ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2014-05-21 18:58         ` Tejun Heo
2014-05-21 19:57           ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2014-06-09 21:47             ` David Rientjes
2014-06-10 23:31               ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2014-06-19 14:59                 ` Tejun Heo
2014-06-19 17:40                   ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2014-06-19 17:14           ` Nishanth Aravamudan

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