Re: [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/numa: Set numa_node for all possible cpus

From: Vlastimil Babka
Date: Fri Mar 13 2020 - 07:38:55 EST


On 3/13/20 12:04 PM, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
>> I lost all the memory about it. :)
>> Anyway, how about this?
>>
>> 1. make node_present_pages() safer
>> static inline node_present_pages(nid)
>> {
>> if (!node_online(nid)) return 0;
>> return (NODE_DATA(nid)->node_present_pages);
>> }
>>
>
> Yes this would help.

Looks good, yeah.

>> 2. make node_to_mem_node() safer for all cases
>> In ppc arch's mem_topology_setup(void)
>> for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {
>> numa_setup_cpu(cpu);
>> mem_node = node_to_mem_node(numa_mem_id());
>> if (!node_present_pages(mem_node)) {
>> _node_numa_mem_[numa_mem_id()] = first_online_node;
>> }
>> }
>>
>
> But here as discussed above, we miss the case of possible but not present nodes.
> For such nodes, the above change may not update, resulting in they still
> having 0. And node 0 can be only possible but not present.

So is there other way to do the setup so that node_to_mem_node() returns an
online+present node when called for any possible node?