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SubjectRe: [PATCH] SPARSEMEM + NUMA can't handle unaligned memory regions?
Andy Whitcroft wrote:

> We see to have a few options:
>
> 1) default the nid to something -- right now most of the non powerpc
> architectures return 0 when the nid cannot be found thus avoiding this
> panic.
>
> 2) nid search -- we can do pretty much what is in this patch probabally
> with some optimisations like trying the first and last pfn in the
> section first.
>
> 3) record the nid -- when we record the memory present in the system we
> are passed the nid.
>
> Somehow the last of these seems the most logical given we have the
> correct information at the time we record that we need to instantiate
> the section. So I had a quick go at something which seems to have come
> out pretty clean. Attached is a completly untested patch to show what I
> am proposing.

Ok. Attached is a version which builds and boots. The patch looks
pretty simple. Michael could you give it a spin on the broken machine
for me.

-apw
sparsemem record nid during memory present

Record the node id as we mark sections for instantiation. Use this
nid during instantiation to direct allocations.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
---
sparse.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -upN reference/mm/sparse.c current/mm/sparse.c
--- reference/mm/sparse.c
+++ current/mm/sparse.c
@@ -102,6 +102,22 @@ int __section_nr(struct mem_section* ms)
return (root_nr * SECTIONS_PER_ROOT) + (ms - root);
}

+/*
+ * During early boot we need to record the nid from which we will
+ * later allocate the section mem_map. Encode this into the section
+ * pointer. Overload the section_mem_map with this information.
+ */
+static inline unsigned long sparse_encode_early_nid(int nid)
+{
+ return (nid << SECTION_MAP_LAST_BIT);
+}
+
+static inline int sparse_early_nid(struct mem_section *section)
+{
+ unsigned long nid = section->section_mem_map;
+ return (nid >> SECTION_MAP_LAST_BIT);
+}
+
/* Record a memory area against a node. */
void memory_present(int nid, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
{
@@ -116,7 +132,8 @@ void memory_present(int nid, unsigned lo

ms = __nr_to_section(section);
if (!ms->section_mem_map)
- ms->section_mem_map = SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT;
+ ms->section_mem_map = sparse_encode_early_nid(nid) |
+ SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT;
}
}

@@ -167,6 +184,7 @@ static int sparse_init_one_section(struc
if (!valid_section(ms))
return -EINVAL;

+ ms->section_mem_map &= ~SECTION_MAP_MASK;
ms->section_mem_map |= sparse_encode_mem_map(mem_map, pnum);

return 1;
@@ -175,8 +193,8 @@ static int sparse_init_one_section(struc
static struct page *sparse_early_mem_map_alloc(unsigned long pnum)
{
struct page *map;
- int nid = early_pfn_to_nid(section_nr_to_pfn(pnum));
struct mem_section *ms = __nr_to_section(pnum);
+ int nid = sparse_early_nid(ms);

map = alloc_remap(nid, sizeof(struct page) * PAGES_PER_SECTION);
if (map)
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