linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] x86/apic changes for v2.6.38

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Date:	Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:50:37 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@...com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/apic changes for v2.6.38

On 01/12/2011 12:28 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
>>> Assume Tony will have another patch for IA64 to check that before
>>> apply this patch.
>>
>> Ingo,
>>
>> Ok, I sent (a slightly modified version of) this patch up to Linus
>> as part of the ia64 merge window pull ... so it is safe to update
>> drivers/acpi/numa.c with a patch that will parse all the SRAT cpu
>> entries down to ia64 now.
> 
> Thanks Tony!
> 
> Since the original commit d3bd058 is already upstream i suspect we should be fine 
> all around, right?

he mean this one:

Untested on X86.  Builds and boots on ia64 (both normally and with
maxcpus=8 to limit the number of cpus).

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>

---

I left the comment ... though it might need some tweaking as it is
kind of tenuously connected to the '0' argument passed to acpi_table_parse_srat.

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/numa.c b/drivers/acpi/numa.c
index d9926af..5eb25eb 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/numa.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/numa.c
@@ -275,23 +275,19 @@ acpi_table_parse_srat(enum acpi_srat_type id,
 int __init acpi_numa_init(void)
 {
 	int ret = 0;
-	int nr_cpu_entries = nr_cpu_ids;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86
 	/*
 	 * Should not limit number with cpu num that is from NR_CPUS or nr_cpus=
 	 * SRAT cpu entries could have different order with that in MADT.
 	 * So go over all cpu entries in SRAT to get apicid to node mapping.
 	 */
-	nr_cpu_entries = MAX_LOCAL_APIC;
-#endif
 
 	/* SRAT: Static Resource Affinity Table */
 	if (!acpi_table_parse(ACPI_SIG_SRAT, acpi_parse_srat)) {
 		acpi_table_parse_srat(ACPI_SRAT_TYPE_X2APIC_CPU_AFFINITY,
-				     acpi_parse_x2apic_affinity, nr_cpu_entries);
+				     acpi_parse_x2apic_affinity, 0);
 		acpi_table_parse_srat(ACPI_SRAT_TYPE_CPU_AFFINITY,
-				     acpi_parse_processor_affinity, nr_cpu_entries);
+				     acpi_parse_processor_affinity, 0);
 		ret = acpi_table_parse_srat(ACPI_SRAT_TYPE_MEMORY_AFFINITY,
 					    acpi_parse_memory_affinity,
 					    NR_NODE_MEMBLKS);

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