On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 09:19:00AM -0800, Lameter, Christopher wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jan 2024, Huang Shijie wrote: > > > During the kernel booting, the generic cpu_to_node() is called too early in > > arm64, powerpc and riscv when CONFIG_NUMA is enabled. > > > > For arm64/powerpc/riscv, there are at least four places in the common code > > where the generic cpu_to_node() is called before it is initialized: > > 1.) early_trace_init() in kernel/trace/trace.c > > 2.) sched_init() in kernel/sched/core.c > > 3.) init_sched_fair_class() in kernel/sched/fair.c > > 4.) workqueue_init_early() in kernel/workqueue.c > > > > In order to fix the bug, the patch changes generic cpu_to_node to > > function pointer, and export it for kernel modules. > > Introduce smp_prepare_boot_cpu_start() to wrap the original > > smp_prepare_boot_cpu(), and set cpu_to_node with early_cpu_to_node. > > Introduce smp_prepare_cpus_done() to wrap the original smp_prepare_cpus(), > > and set the cpu_to_node to formal _cpu_to_node(). > > Would you please fix this cleanly without a function pointer? > > What I think needs to be done is a patch series. > > 1. Instrument cpu_to_node so that some warning is issued if it is used too > early. Preloading the array with NUMA_NO_NODE would allow us to do that. By preloading do you mean compile-time initialization? > 2. Implement early_cpu_to_node on platforms that currently do not have it. > > 3. A series of patches that fix each place where cpu_to_node is used too > early. Agree. This is the right way to go. And pretty well all of it was discussed in v1, isn't? Thanks, Yury
