> On Dec 9, 2021, at 12:46 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu 09-12-21 02:16:17, Alexey Makhalov wrote: >> This patch calls alloc_percpu() from setup_arch() while percpu >> allocator is not yet initialized (before setup_per_cpu_areas()). > > Yeah, I haven't realized the pcp is not available. I was not really sure > about that. Could you try with the alloc_percpu dropped? > > Thanks for testing! > -- > Michal Hocko > SUSE Labs It boots now. dmesg has these new messages: [ 0.081777] Node 4 uninitialized by the platform. Please report with boot dmesg. [ 0.081790] Initmem setup node 4 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000000] ... [ 0.086441] Node 127 uninitialized by the platform. Please report with boot dmesg. [ 0.086454] Initmem setup node 127 [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000000] vCPU/node hot add works. Onlining works as well, but with warning. I do not think it is related to the patch: [ 36.838838] CPU4 has been hot-added [ 36.838987] acpi_processor_hotadd_init:205 cpu 4, node 4, online 0, ndata 00000000e9c7f79b [ 48.480498] Built 4 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 961440 [ 48.480508] Policy zone: Normal [ 48.508318] smpboot: Booting Node 4 Processor 4 APIC 0x8 [ 48.509255] Disabled fast string operations [ 48.509807] smpboot: CPU 4 Converting physical 8 to logical package 4 [ 48.509825] smpboot: CPU 4 Converting physical 0 to logical die 4 [ 48.510040] WARNING: workqueue cpumask: online intersect > possible intersect [ 48.510324] vmware: vmware-stealtime: cpu 4, pa 3e667000 [ 48.511311] Will online and init hotplugged CPU: 4 Hot remove does not quite work. It might be issue in ACPI/Firmware code or Hypervisor. Debugging… Do you want me to perform any specific tests? Regards, —Alexey
