On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 21:23 +0000, Luciano Chavez wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 20:30 +0000, Luciano Chavez wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 14:52 -0500, Dave Anderson wrote:
> > >
> > > For now, all I was thinking would be to simply change display_sys_stats()
> > > to something like:
> > >
> > > if (machine_type("PPC64"))
> > > your_function();
> > > else
> > > fprintf(fp, " CPUS: %d\n", kt->cpus);
> > >
> > > and since your_function() does not need to be in a machine-specific
> > > file, just put in kernel.c. And you can also call it from the
> > > ppc64_display_machine_stats() function.
> >
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > I like this particular solution best! Simple and straightforward. I'll
> > work on a patch that does exactly as suggested. I'll post it for review
> > once I have it done this afternoon. Thanks for the help!
>
> Below is the simpler revised patch. It applies and compiles to the
> latest crash 5.0.1 source cleanly.
>
> I still need to verify it still fixes the original problem. I am
> confident it will but just wanted to post the patch up first.
>
> BTW, I was able to briefly access a POWER7 box this morning and
> confirmed that at least the CPU count displayed would be worse on one of
> those systems if indeed SMT was disabled and when using the current code
> minus the patch.
>
> ~ # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/online
> 0-23
> ~ # ppc64_cpu --smt=off
> ~ # cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/online
> 0,4,8,12,16,20
>
> The current 5.0.1 code would display CPUS: 21 rather than CPUS: 6
>
> Once I confirm the patch fixes this problem, I will post a followup.
>
I tested the patch and confirmed it displayed the expected results after
disabling smt on a ppc64 test system. Previously, CPUS
count would have been displayed incorrectly as 15 on this test system.
[root@elm3b130 crash-5.0.1]# ppc64_cpu --smt=on
[root@elm3b130 crash-5.0.1]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/online | grep -c 1
16
[root@elm3b130 crash-5.0.1]# ppc64_cpu --smt=off
[root@elm3b130 crash-5.0.1]# cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/online | grep -c 1
8
[root@elm3b130 crash-5.0.1]# ./crash
crash 5.0.1
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KERNEL: /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.18-190.el5/vmlinux
DUMPFILE: /dev/mem
CPUS: 8
DATE: Mon Mar 8 18:36:44 2010
UPTIME: 01:49:41
LOAD AVERAGE: 0.54, 0.54, 0.36
TASKS: 176
NODENAME: elm3b130
RELEASE: 2.6.18-190.el5
VERSION: #1 SMP Mon Feb 22 19:18:34 EST 2010
MACHINE: ppc64 (1654 Mhz)
MEMORY: 4 GB
PID: 20625
COMMAND: "crash"
TASK: c000000090456c00 [THREAD_INFO: c0000000ceb84000]
CPU: 14
STATE: TASK_RUNNING (ACTIVE)
crash> sys
KERNEL: /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.18-190.el5/vmlinux
DUMPFILE: /dev/mem
CPUS: 8
DATE: Mon Mar 8 18:36:49 2010
UPTIME: 01:49:45
LOAD AVERAGE: 0.50, 0.53, 0.36
TASKS: 177
NODENAME: elm3b130
RELEASE: 2.6.18-190.el5
VERSION: #1 SMP Mon Feb 22 19:18:34 EST 2010
MACHINE: ppc64 (1654 Mhz)
MEMORY: 4 GB
crash>
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Luciano Chavez <lnx1138@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
IBM Linux Technology Center
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