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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/3] x86_64: offset apicid_to_node before use it before init_cpu_to_node
On 7/22/07, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
> On Sunday 22 July 2007 02:49:41 Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > [PATCH 3/3] x86_64: offset apicid_to_node before use it before init_cpu_to_node
> >
> > When acpi=off or there is no SRAT defined, apicid_to_node is got from K8
> > Northbridge PCI configuration space in k8_scan_nodes() in
> > arch/x86_64/mm/k8toplogy.c.
> > The problem is that it assumes bsp apic id is 0 at that point.
> > For four socket system with Quad core cpus installed, all cpus apic id
> > is offset by 4, and bsp apic id is 4.
> > For eight socket system with dual core cpus installed, all cpus apic id
> > is offset by 2, and bsp apic id is 2.
> > We need offset apicid_to_node array according to boot_cpu_id.--- bsp apic id.
> > before we use apicid_to_node array.
> > boot_cpu_id is only valid init_apic_mappings.
>
> <rant>
> This thing is getting more and more messy. If it gets any more complicated
> I promise I'll rip out the non ACPI support for quad core NUMA completely
> and let it require ACPI. Even the people who have a religious problem
> with ACPI will need to eventually get over it and LinuxBIOS just has
> to create proper tables, not pile hacks over hacks. It probably was a mistake in
> the first place to add it.
> </rant>
you will need to force every BIOS to have correct SRAT table.
>
> I don't think you can mess with apicid_to_node[] unconditionally here.
> e.g. for the ACPI case or for the Intel NUMA case you'll just break everything.
>
> What you should do is split init_apic_mappings() up and do a early
> call that just checks if the CPU has an APIC and maps it using the
> fixmap and reads boot_cpu_id. Then you can use that information
> in k8topology.c to create correct tables.

sounds good, i try to split one init_lapic_mappings from init_apic_mappings

Thanks

YH
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