[PATCH] powerpc/numa: Use associativity if VPHN hcall is successful

Srikar Dronamraju srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Sep 25 22:25:15 AEST 2018


Currently associativity is used to lookup node-id even if the preceding
VPHN hcall failed. However this can cause CPU to be made part of the
wrong node, (most likely to be node 0). This is because VPHN is not
enabled on kvm guests.

With 2ea6263 ("powerpc/topology: Get topology for shared processors at
boot"), associativity is used to set to the wrong node. Hence KVM guest
topology is broken.

For example : A 4 node KVM guest before would have reported.

[root at localhost ~]#  numactl -H
available: 4 nodes (0-3)
node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3
node 0 size: 1746 MB
node 0 free: 1604 MB
node 1 cpus: 4 5 6 7
node 1 size: 2044 MB
node 1 free: 1765 MB
node 2 cpus: 8 9 10 11
node 2 size: 2044 MB
node 2 free: 1837 MB
node 3 cpus: 12 13 14 15
node 3 size: 2044 MB
node 3 free: 1903 MB
node distances:
node   0   1   2   3
  0:  10  40  40  40
  1:  40  10  40  40
  2:  40  40  10  40
  3:  40  40  40  10

would now report

[root at localhost ~]# numactl -H
available: 4 nodes (0-3)
node 0 cpus: 0 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
node 0 size: 1746 MB
node 0 free: 1244 MB
node 1 cpus:
node 1 size: 2044 MB
node 1 free: 2032 MB
node 2 cpus: 1
node 2 size: 2044 MB
node 2 free: 2028 MB
node 3 cpus:
node 3 size: 2044 MB
node 3 free: 2032 MB
node distances:
node   0   1   2   3
  0:  10  40  40  40
  1:  40  10  40  40
  2:  40  40  10  40
  3:  40  40  40  10

Fix this by skipping associativity lookup if the VPHN hcall failed.

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
index 35ac5422903a..e94148a1d7e4 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
@@ -1204,7 +1204,9 @@ int find_and_online_cpu_nid(int cpu)
 	int new_nid;
 
 	/* Use associativity from first thread for all siblings */
-	vphn_get_associativity(cpu, associativity);
+	if (vphn_get_associativity(cpu, associativity))
+		return cpu_to_node(cpu);
+
 	new_nid = associativity_to_nid(associativity);
 	if (new_nid < 0 || !node_possible(new_nid))
 		new_nid = first_online_node;
-- 
2.12.3



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