I don't see this in linux-next so I assume nobody has picked it up yet?
numa.c isn't my file, but the fix is for something that went in via
PCI, so I can take this patch if nobody else has already.
The changelog could all be wrapped to use more of the line. Assume 80
char width and allow for the 4 spaces added by git log.
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 11:06:17AM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> The addition of support to read the numa node for a PCI
s/numa/NUMA/
> card specified by _PXM resulted in Martin's system not
> booting. Looking at the ACPI tables it seems that there
> are PXM entries for the root ports, but no SRAT table.
s/PXM/_PXM/ (and below)
> The absence of SRAT table results in dummy_numa_init being
dummy_numa_init() and similar for other functions below.
> called. However, unlike on arm64, this doesn't then result
> in numa_off being set. When the PCI code later comes along
> and calls acpi_get_node for any PCI card below the root port,
> it navigates up the ACPI tree until it finds the PXM value in
> the root port. This value is then passed to
> acpi_map_pxm_to_node. If numa_off is set this returns,
> NUMA_NO_NODE (as it does on arm64), on x86 it instead tries
This doesn't parse quite right.
> to allocate a numa node from the unused set without setting
> up all the infrastructure that would normally accompany such
> a call. We have not identified exactly which driver is
> causing the subsequent hang for Martin.
It's not clear to me why dummy_numa_init() must be different between
arm64 and x86. This patch makes x86 more like arm64, which is good.
Maybe a subsequent patch could go even further?
> It is invalid under the ACPI spec to specify new
> numa nodes using PXM if they have no presence in SRAT.
> Thus the simplest fix is to set numa_off when it is off due
> to an invalid SRAT (here not present at all).
>
> I do not have easy access to appropriate x86 numa systems so
> would appreciate some testing of this one!
>
> Known problem boards setups:
>
> AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X on ASROCK X399 TAICHI
> MSI X399 SLI PLUS (probably - not confirmed yet)
>
> The PCI patch has been reverted, so this fix is not critical.
>
> Reported-by: Martin Hundeb?ll <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: bad7dcd94f39 ("ACPI/PCI: Pay attention to device-specific _PXM node values")
>
> ---
> arch/x86/mm/numa.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
> index 1308f5408bf7..ce1182f953ff 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
> @@ -695,6 +695,8 @@ static int __init dummy_numa_init(void)
> node_set(0, numa_nodes_parsed);
> numa_add_memblk(0, 0, PFN_PHYS(max_pfn));
>
> + numa_off = true;
> +
> return 0;
> }
>
> --
> 2.18.0
>
>
