[PATCH v3 3/5] powerpc/numa: Use cpu node map of first sibling thread

Srikar Dronamraju srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Sep 13 03:23:55 AEST 2019


> 
> I think just WARN_ON(cpu_online(fcpu)) would be satisfactory. In my
> experience, the downstream effects of violating this condition are
> varied and quite difficult to debug. Seems only appropriate to emit a
> warning and stack trace before the OS inevitably becomes unstable.

I still have to try but wouldn't this be a problem for the boot-cpu?
I mean boot-cpu would be marked online while it tries to do numa_setup_cpu.
No?

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Srikar Dronamraju



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