linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] irqchip/gic-v3-its: fix ITS queue timeout

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 7 Jun 2018 20:25:26 +0800
From:   Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@...wei.com>
To:     Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@...wei.com>
CC:     <julien.thierry@....com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] irqchip/gic-v3-its: fix ITS queue timeout

Hi Marc,

On 2018/6/6 17:13, Marc Zyngier wrote:
[...]
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to just return that the affinity setting request
> is impossible to satisfy? And more to the point, how comes we end-up
> in such a case?

The system is booted with a NUMA node has no memory attaching to it
(memory-less NUMA node), also with NR_CPUS less than CPUs presented
in MADT, so CPUs on this memory-less node are not brought up, and
this NUMA node will not be online too. But the ITS attaching to this NUMA
domain is still valid and represented via SRAT to ITS driver.

This is really the corner case which is triggered by the boot testing
when enabling our D06 boards, but it's a bug :)

Thanks
Hanjun