Re: [PATCH v3] Add support for AMD64 EDAC on multiple PCI domains

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Oct 29 2012 - 06:32:11 EST


+ Andreas.

Dude, look at this boot log below:

http://quora.org/2012/16-server-boot-2.txt

That's 192 F10h's!

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 04:54:59PM +0800, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> >A number of other callers lookup the PCI device based on index
> >0..amd_nb_num(), but we can't easily allocate contiguous northbridge IDs
> >from the PCI device in the first place.
>
> >OTOH we can simply this code by changing amd_get_node_id to generate a
> >linear northbridge ID from the index of the matching entry in the
> >northbridge array.
> >
> >I'll get a patch together to see if there are any snags.

I suspected that after we have this nice approach, you guys would come
with non-contiguous node numbers. Maan, can't you build your systems so
that software people can have it easy at least for once??!

:-)

> This really is a lot less intrusive [1] and boots well on top of
> 3.7-rc3 on one of our 16-server/192-core/512GB systems [2].
>
> If you're happy with this simpler approach for now, I'll present
> this and a separate patch cleaning up the inconsistent use of
> unsigned and u8 node ID variables to u16?

Sure, bring it on.

> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/amd_nb.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/amd_nb.h
> index b3341e9..b88fc7a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/amd_nb.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/amd_nb.h
> @@ -81,6 +81,18 @@ static inline struct amd_northbridge
> *node_to_amd_nb(int node)
> return (node < amd_northbridges.num) ?
> &amd_northbridges.nb[node] : NULL;
> }
>
> +static inline u8 get_node_id(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> +{
> + int i;
> +
> + for (i = 0; i != amd_nb_num(); i++)
> + if (pci_domain_nr(node_to_amd_nb(i)->misc->bus) ==
> pci_domain_nr(pdev->bus) &&
> + PCI_SLOT(node_to_amd_nb(i)->misc->devfn) ==
> PCI_SLOT(pdev->devfn))
> + return i;

Looks ok, can you send the whole patch please?

> + BUG();

I'm not sure about this - maybe WARN()? Are we absolutely sure we
unconditionally should panic after not finding an NB descriptor?

> [2] http://quora.org/2012/16-server-boot-2.txt

That's just crazy:

[ 45.987953] Brought up 192 CPUs

:-)

Btw, this shouldn't happen on those CPUs:

[ 39.279131] TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#12]:
[ 39.287223] Measured 22750019569 cycles TSC warp between CPUs, turning off TSC clock.
[ 0.030000] tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to check_tsc_sync_source failed

I guess TSCs are not starting at the same moment on all boards.

You definitely need ucode on those too:

[ 113.392460] microcode: CPU0: patch_level=0x00000000

That's just crazy, hahahah.

Thanks.

--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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