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Message-ID: <9f9097ec-6097-4ef7-a710-e7ad89470814@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:42:04 -0400
From:   Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>
To:     Hanjun Guo <hanjun.guo@...aro.org>,
        Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>
Cc:     David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@...iumnetworks.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>, xieyisheng1@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64, numa: Add cpu_to_node() implementation.

On 09/20/2016 10:12 AM, Hanjun Guo wrote:
> On 09/20/2016 09:38 PM, Robert Richter wrote:
>> On 20.09.16 19:32:34, Hanjun Guo wrote:
>>> On 09/20/2016 06:43 PM, Robert Richter wrote:
>>
>>>> Instead we need to make sure the set_*numa_node() functions are called
>>>> earlier before secondary cpus are booted. My suggested change for that
>>>> is this:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
>>>> index d93d43352504..952365c2f100 100644
>>>> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
>>>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
>>>> @@ -204,7 +204,6 @@ int __cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, struct
>>>> task_struct *idle)
>>>>   static void smp_store_cpu_info(unsigned int cpuid)
>>>>   {
>>>>       store_cpu_topology(cpuid);
>>>> -    numa_store_cpu_info(cpuid);
>>>>   }
>>>>
>>>>   /*
>>>> @@ -719,6 +718,7 @@ void __init smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int max_cpus)
>>>>               continue;
>>>>
>>>>           set_cpu_present(cpu, true);
>>>> +        numa_store_cpu_info(cpu);
>>>>       }
>>>>   }
>>>
>>> We tried a similar approach which add numa_store_cpu_info() in
>>> early_map_cpu_to_node(), and remove it from smp_store_cpu_info,
>>> but didn't work for us, we will try your approach to see if works.
> 
> And it works :)

Great. I'm curious for further (immediate) feedback on David's updated
patch in the other thread due to some time sensitive needs on our end.

Jon.



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