Hi, Xiaolong
At 02/21/2017 03:10 PM, Ye Xiaolong wrote:
On 02/21, Ye Xiaolong wrote:
> On 02/20, Dou Liyang wrote:
>> Currently, We make the mapping of "cpuid <-> nodeid" fixed at the
booting time.
>> It keeps consistent with the WorkQueue and avoids some bugs which may be caused
>> by the dynamic assignment.
>> As we know, It is implemented by the patches as follows: 2532fc318d, f7c28833c2,
>> 8f54969dc8, 8ad893faf2, dc6db24d24, which depend on ACPI table. Simply speaking:
>>
>> Step 1. Make the "Logical CPU ID <-> Processor ID/UID" fixed
Using MADT:
>> We generate the logical CPU IDs by the Local APIC/x2APIC IDs orderly and
>> get the mapping of Processor ID/UID <-> Local Apic ID directly in MADT.
>> So, we get the mapping of
>> *Processor ID/UID <-> Local Apic ID <-> Logical CPU ID*
>>
>> Step 2. Make the "Processor ID/UID <-> Node ID(_PXM)" fixed Using
DSDT:
>> The maaping of "Processor ID/UID <-> Node ID(_PXM)" is ready-made
in
>> each entities. we just use it directly.
>>
>> So, at last we get the maaping of *Node ID <-> Logical CPU ID* according
to
>> step1 and step2:
>> *Node ID(_PXM) <-> Processor ID/UID <-> Local Apic ID <->
Logical CPU ID*
>>
>> But, The ACPI table is unreliable and it is very risky that we use the entity
>> which isn't related to a physical device at booting time. Here has already
two
>> bugs we found.
>> 1. Duplicated Processor IDs in DSDT.
>> It has been fixed by commit 8e089eaa19, fd74da217d.
>> 2. The _PXM in DSDT is inconsistent with the one in MADT.
>> It may cause the bug, which is shown in:
>>
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/12/200
>> There may be more later. We shouldn't just only fix them everytime, we
should
>> solve this problem from the source to avoid such problems happend again and
>> again.
>>
>> Now, a simple and easy way is found, we revert our patches. Do the Step 2
>> at hot-plug time, not at booting time where we did some useless work.
>>
>> It also can make the mapping of "cpuid <-> nodeid" fixed and
avoid excessive
>> use of the ACPI table.
>>
>> We have tested them in our box: Fujitsu PQ2000 with 2 nodes for hot-plug.
>> To Xiaolong:
>> Please help me to test it in the special machine.
>
> Got it, I'll queue the tests on the previous machine and let you know the result
> once I get it.
Previous kernel panic and incomplete run issue (described in [1]) in 0day
system is gone with this series.
Thanks very much, I am glad to hear that!
Tested-by: Xiaolong Ye <xiaolong.ye(a)intel.com>
I will add it in my next version.
Thanks,
Liyang
Here is the comparison:
$ compare -at dc6db24d2476cd09c0ecf2b8d80313539f737a89
2e61bac54fad4c018afd23c118bce2399e504020
tests: 1
testcase/path_params/tbox_group/run:
vm-scalability/300-never-never-1-1-swap-w-rand-performance/lkp-hsw-ep2
Here dc6db24d24 is previous first bad commit, 2e61bac54 is the head commit of your
series
applied on top of latest tip of linus/master c945d0227d ("Merge branch
'x86-platform-for-linus' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip")
dc6db24d2476cd09 2e61bac54fad4c018afd23c118
---------------- --------------------------
fail:runs %reproduction fail:runs
| | |
:12 12% 1:8 last_state.OOM
:12 12% 1:8
dmesg.page_allocation_failure:order:#,mode:#(GFP_USER|GFP_DMA32|__GFP_ZERO)
:12 12% 1:8 dmesg.Mem-Info
12:12 -100% :8 dmesg.BUG:unable_to_handle_kernel
12:12 -100% :8 dmesg.Oops
12:12 -100% :8 dmesg.RIP:get_partial_node
9:12 -75% :8 dmesg.RIP:_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
3:12 -25% :8 dmesg.general_protection_fault:#[##]SMP
3:12 -25% :8 dmesg.RIP:native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
3:12 -25% :8 dmesg.Kernel_panic-not_syncing:Hard_LOCKUP
2:12 -17% :8 dmesg.RIP:load_balance
2:12 -17% :8
dmesg.Kernel_panic-not_syncing:Fatal_exception_in_interrupt
1:12 -8% :8 dmesg.RIP:resched_curr
1:12 -8% :8
dmesg.Kernel_panic-not_syncing:Fatal_exception
5:12 -42% :8
dmesg.WARNING:at_include/linux/uaccess.h:#__probe_kernel_read
1:12 -8% :8
dmesg.WARNING:at_lib/list_debug.c:#__list_add
[1]
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/12/200
Thanks,
Xiaolong
>
> Thanks,
> Xiaolong
>>
>> Change log:
>> v1 -> v2: 1. fix some comments.
>> 2. add the verification of duplicate processor id.
>>
>> Dou Liyang (4):
>> Revert"x86/acpi: Set persistent cpuid <-> nodeid mapping when
booting"
>> Revert"x86/acpi: Enable MADT APIs to return disabled apicids"
>> acpi: Fix the check handle in case of declaring processors using the
>> Device operator
>> acpi: Move the verification of duplicate proc_id from booting time to
>> hot-plug time
>>
>> arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c | 2 +-
>> drivers/acpi/acpi_processor.c | 50 +++++++++++-----
>> drivers/acpi/bus.c | 1 -
>> drivers/acpi/processor_core.c | 133 +++++++-----------------------------------
>> include/linux/acpi.h | 5 +-
>> 5 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 132 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 2.5.5
>>
>>
>>