3.6.11.4 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan [ Upstream commit 7122beeee7bc1757682049780179d7c216dd1c83 ] The following commit breaks numa distance setup for old powerpc systems that use form0 encoding in device tree. commit 41eab6f88f24124df89e38067b3766b7bef06ddb powerpc/numa: Use form 1 affinity to setup node distance Device tree node /rtas/ibm,associativity-reference-points would index into /cpus/PowerPCxxxx/ibm,associativity based on form0 or form1 encoding detected by ibm,architecture-vec-5 property. All modern systems use form1 and current kernel code is correct. However, on older systems with form0 encoding, the numa distance will get hard coded as LOCAL_DISTANCE for all nodes. This causes task scheduling anomaly since scheduler will skip building numa level domain (topmost domain with all cpus) if all numa distances are same. (value of 'level' in sched_init_numa() will remain 0) Prior to the above commit: ((from) == (to) ? LOCAL_DISTANCE : REMOTE_DISTANCE) Restoring compatible behavior with this patch for old powerpc systems with device tree where numa distance are encoded as form0. Signed-off-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c index 59213cf..d53fa78 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ int __node_distance(int a, int b) int distance = LOCAL_DISTANCE; if (!form1_affinity) - return distance; + return ((a == b) ? LOCAL_DISTANCE : REMOTE_DISTANCE); for (i = 0; i < distance_ref_points_depth; i++) { if (distance_lookup_table[a][i] == distance_lookup_table[b][i]) -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/