linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 4/5] ACPI/PCI: Warn if we have to "guess" host bridge node information

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Message-ID: <20140419025339.2408.17866.stgit@amt.stowe>
Date:	Fri, 18 Apr 2014 20:53:39 -0600
From:	Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@...hat.com>
To:	bhelgaas@...gle.com, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	suravee.suthikulpanit@....com, aravind.gopalakrishnan@....com,
	kim.naru@....com, andreas.herrmann3@....com, daniel@...ascale.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
	x86@...nel.org, bp@...e.de, sp@...ascale.com,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/5] ACPI/PCI: Warn if we have to "guess" host bridge node
	information

The vast majority of platforms are not supplying ACPI _PXM (proximity)
information corresponding to host bridge (PNP0A03/PNP0A08) devices
resulting in sysfs "numa_node" values of -1 (NUMA_NO_NODE) [1]:
  # for i in /sys/devices/pci0000\:00/*/numa_node; do cat $i; done | uniq
  -1

  # find /sys/ -name "numa_node" | while read fname; do cat $fname; \
    done | uniq
  -1

AMD based platforms provide a fall-back for this situation via amd_bus.c.
These platforms snoop out the information by directly reading specific
registers from the Northbridge and caching them via 'alloc_pci_root_info'.

Later during boot processing when host bridges are discovered -
'pci_acpi_scan_root' - the kernel looks for their corresponding ACPI _PXM
method - drivers/acpi/numa.c::acpi_get_node().  If the BIOS supplied a
_PXM method then that node (proximity) value is associated.  If the BIOS
did not supply a _PXM method *and* the platform is AMD based, the
fall-back cached values obtained directly from the Northbridge are used;
otherwise, "NUMA_NO_NODE" is associated.

There are a number of issues with this fall-back mechanism the most
notable being that amd_bus.c extracts a 3-bit number from a CPU register
and uses it as the node number.  The node numbers used by Linux are
logical and there's no reason they need to be identical to settings in the
CPU registers.  So if we have some node information obtained in the normal
way (from _PXM, SLIT, SRAT, etc.) and some from amd_bus.c, there's no
reason to believe they will be compatible.

This patch warns when this situation occurs:
  pci_root PNP0A08:00: [Firmware Bug]: No _PXM; guessing node number 0

[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72051

Signed-off-by: Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@...hat.com>
---

 arch/x86/pci/acpi.c |    6 +++++-
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/acpi.c b/arch/x86/pci/acpi.c
index 01edac6..80c09ba 100644
--- a/arch/x86/pci/acpi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/pci/acpi.c
@@ -489,8 +489,12 @@ struct pci_bus *pci_acpi_scan_root(struct acpi_pci_root *root)
 	}

 	node = acpi_get_node(device->handle);
-	if (node == NUMA_NO_NODE)
+	if (node == NUMA_NO_NODE) {
 		node = x86_pci_root_bus_node(busnum);
+		if (node != NUMA_NO_NODE)
+			dev_info(&device->dev, FW_BUG "No _PXM; guessing node number %x\n",
+				node);
+	}

 	if (node != NUMA_NO_NODE && !node_online(node))
 		node = NUMA_NO_NODE;

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