linux-kernel - Re: 32bit NUMA and fakeNUMA broken for AMD CPUs

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Date:	Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:13:38 +0200
From:	Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@....com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
CC:	"Seidel, Conny" <Conny.Seidel@....com>,
	"x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 32bit NUMA and fakeNUMA broken for AMD CPUs

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 12:15:17PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hans, can you please apply the following patch and post the boot log
> from both SPARSEMEM and DISCONTIGMEM kernels?  On SPARSEMEM, it should
> reject NUMA config and boot w/ flatmem.

Bootlogs are attached. Now DISCONTIGMEM panics.

> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmzone_32.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmzone_32.h
> index 224e8c5..0b6c75b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmzone_32.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmzone_32.h
> @@ -34,15 +34,15 @@ static inline void resume_map_numa_kva(pgd_t *pgd) {}
>   *    64Gb / 4096bytes/page = 16777216 pages
>   */
>  #define MAX_NR_PAGES 16777216
> -#define MAX_ELEMENTS 1024
> -#define PAGES_PER_ELEMENT (MAX_NR_PAGES/MAX_ELEMENTS)
> +#define MAX_SECTIONS 1024
> +#define PAGES_PER_SECTION (MAX_NR_PAGES/MAX_SECTIONS)
>  
>  extern s8 physnode_map[];
>  
>  static inline int pfn_to_nid(unsigned long pfn)
>  {
>  #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> -	return((int) physnode_map[(pfn) / PAGES_PER_ELEMENT]);
> +	return((int) physnode_map[(pfn) / PAGES_PER_SECTIONS]);

This probably should be PAGES_PER_SECTION.

>  #else
>  	return 0;
>  #endif

-- 
%SYSTEM-F-ANARCHISM, The operating system has been overthrown

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