Hello, Dave. On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 04:03:58PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote: > 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 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. Just tested 3.7-rc7 w/ qemu and it works as expected here. Can you please boot with the following debug patch and report the boot message before and after? Thanks. diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c index 5cdff03..1133dc8 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c @@ -71,9 +71,13 @@ static bool __init pcpu_need_numa(void) for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) { int node = early_cpu_to_node(cpu); + printk("XXX pcpu_need_numa: cpu%d@%d online=%d ND=%p\n", + cpu, node, node_online(node), NODE_DATA(node)); if (node_online(node) && NODE_DATA(node) && - last && last != NODE_DATA(node)) + last && last != NODE_DATA(node)) { + printk("XXX need numa\n"); return true; + } last = NODE_DATA(node); } -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>