Hi Tejun,
I was bisecting a boot problem on a 32-bit NUMA kernel and it bisected
down to commit 8db78cc4. It turns out that, with this patch,
pcpu_need_numa() changed its return value on my system from 1 to 0.
What that basically meant was that we stopped using the remapped lowmem
areas for percpu data.
My system is just qemu booted with:
-smp 8 -m 8192 -numa node,nodeid=0,cpus=0-3 -numa node,nodeid=1,cpus=4-7
Watch the "PERCPU:" line early in boot, and you can see the "Embedded"
come and go with or without your patch:
[ 0.000000] PERCPU: Embedded 11 pages/cpu @f3000000 s30592 r0 d14464
vs
[ 0.000000] PERCPU: 11 4K pages/cpu @f83fe000 s30592 r0 d14464
I believe this has to do with the hunks in your patch that do:
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
init_cpu_to_node();
-#endif
...
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-DEFINE_EARLY_PER_CPU(int, x86_cpu_to_node_map, 0);
-#else
DEFINE_EARLY_PER_CPU(int, x86_cpu_to_node_map, NUMA_NO_NODE);
-#endif
EXPORT_EARLY_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(x86_cpu_to_node_map);
I don't have a fix handy because I'm working on the original problem,
but I just happened to run across this during a bisect.
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