[RESEND, V2] powerpc/numa: Invalidate numa_cpu_lookup_table on cpu remove
Michael Ellerman
patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Fri Feb 9 15:00:33 AEDT 2018
On Fri, 2018-01-26 at 19:41:59 UTC, Nathan Fontenot wrote:
> When DLPAR removing a CPU, the unmapping of the cpu from a node in
> unmap_cpu_from_node() should also invalidate the CPUs entry in the
> numa_cpu_lookup_table. There is not a guarantee that on a subsequent
> DLPAR add of the CPU the associativity will be the same and thus
> could be in a different node. Invalidating the entry in the
> numa_cpu_lookup_table causes the associativity to be read from the
> device tree at the time of the add.
>
> The current behavior of not invalidating the CPUs entry in the
> numa_cpu_lookup_table can result in scenarios where the the topology
> layout of CPUs in the partition does not match the device tree
> or the topology reported by the HMC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Applied to powerpc fixes, thanks.
https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/1d9a090783bef19fe8cdec878620d2
cheers
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