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Re: Oops on Power8 (was Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] workqueue: make workqueue available early during boot)

From Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Oops on Power8 (was Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] workqueue: make workqueue available early during boot)
Date 2016-10-18 04:40 +0200
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Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> writes:
> On 17/10/16 23:24, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> That happened because we haven't yet called set_cpu_numa_node() for the non-boot
>> cpus, because that happens in smp_prepare_cpus(), and
>> workqueue_init_early() is called much earlier than that.
>> 
>> This doesn't trigger on x86 because it does set_cpu_numa_node() in
>> setup_per_cpu_areas(), which is called prior to workqueue_init_early().
>> 
>> We can (should) probably do the same on powerpc, I'll look at that
>> tomorrow. But other arches may have a similar problem, and at the very
>> least we need to document that workqueue_init_early() relies on
>> cpu_to_node() working.
>
> Don't we do the setup cpu->node mapings in initmem_init()?
> Ideally we have setup_arch->intmem_init->numa_setup_cpu

That sets up numa_cpu_lookup_table, which is a powerpc only data
structure.

But it doesn't setup the percpu numa_node variables, used by
cpu_to_node(), because percpu areas are not setup yet.

cheers

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Re: Oops on Power8 (was Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] workqueue: make workqueue  available early during boot) Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-10-14 17:10 +0200
  Re: Oops on Power8 (was Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] workqueue: make workqueue  available early during boot) Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> - 2016-10-15 03:30 +0200
  Re: Oops on Power8 (was Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] workqueue: make workqueue available early during boot) Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-10-15 11:50 +0200
    Re: Oops on Power8 (was Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] workqueue: make workqueue  available early during boot) Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-10-17 20:20 +0200
  Re: Oops on Power8 (was Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] workqueue: make workqueue available early during boot) Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-10-17 14:30 +0200
    Re: Oops on Power8 (was Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] workqueue: make workqueue  available early during boot) Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> - 2016-10-17 15:00 +0200
      Re: Oops on Power8 (was Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] workqueue: make workqueue available early during boot) Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-10-18 04:40 +0200
    Re: Oops on Power8 (was Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] workqueue: make workqueue  available early during boot) Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-10-17 20:20 +0200
      Re: Oops on Power8 (was Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] workqueue: make workqueue  available early during boot) Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-10-17 21:40 +0200
        Re: Oops on Power8 (was Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] workqueue: make workqueue  available early during boot) Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-10-18 21:10 +0200
          Re: Oops on Power8 (was Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] workqueue: make workqueue available early during boot) Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-10-19 17:00 +0200
            [PATCH wq/for-4.10] workqueue: move wq_numa_init() to  workqueue_init() Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2016-10-19 18:20 +0200

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