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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] NUMA: Early use of cpu_to_node() returns 0 instead of the correct node id
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:44:51 +0800 Huang Shijie <shijie@os.amperecomputing.com> wrote:

> During the kernel booting, the generic cpu_to_node() is called too early in
> arm64, powerpc and riscv when CONFIG_NUMA is enabled.
>
> There are at least four places in the common code where
> the generic cpu_to_node() is called before it is initialized:
> 1.) early_trace_init() in kernel/trace/trace.c
> 2.) sched_init() in kernel/sched/core.c
> 3.) init_sched_fair_class() in kernel/sched/fair.c
> 4.) workqueue_init_early() in kernel/workqueue.c
>
> In order to fix the bug, the patch introduces early_numa_node_init()
> which is called after smp_prepare_boot_cpu() in start_kernel.
> early_numa_node_init will initialize the "numa_node" as soon as
> the early_cpu_to_node() is ready, before the cpu_to_node() is called
> at the first time.

What are the userspace-visible runtime effects of this bug?



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