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Message-ID: <4B01561A.4090109@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:39:38 -0500
From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bhavna.sarathy@....com,
jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org, andreas.herrmann3@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: AMD Northbridge: Verify NB's node is online
>>
>> Hardware maybe programmed incorrectly and return a bogus node ID.
>> Check to see if the node is actually online before setting the numa
>> node for an AMD northbridge in quirk_amd_nb_node().
>>
>
> Hm, could you stick a printk in there, what precise node ID does the
> hardware return?
>
>
Ingo, yup -- I put in a printk and commented out the set_dev_node() call
when debugging this
and got this output:
quirk_amd_nb_node: current numa_node = 0x0, would set to val & 7 = 0x0
quirk_amd_nb_node: current numa_node = 0x0, would set to val & 7 = 0x1
quirk_amd_nb_node: current numa_node = 0x0, would set to val & 7 = 0x2
quirk_amd_nb_node: current numa_node = 0x0, would set to val & 7 = 0x3
The issue appears to be that the HW has set val to a valid value,
however, the system is only configured for a single node -- 0.
I realize that I'm working around broken HW ... but I think that a
quirk, quirk_amd_nb_node(), should at least keep systems booting ...
P.
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