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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	benh@kernel.crashing.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [regression] 3.0-rc boot failure -- bisected to cd4ea6ae3982
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:45:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311158708.5345.12.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110720201436.19e9689a@kryten>

On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 20:14 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:

> > That looks very strange indeed.. up to node 23 there is the normal
> > symmetric matrix with all the trace elements on 10 (as we would expect
> > for local access), and some 4x4 sub-matrix stacked around the trace
> > with 20, suggesting a single hop distance, and the rest on 40 being
> > out-there.
> 
> I retested with the latest version of numactl, and get correct results.

One less thing to worry about ;-)

> I worked out why the patches don't boot, we weren't allocating any
> space for the cpumask and ran off the end of the allocation.

Gah! that's not the first time I made that particular mistake :/

> Should we also use cpumask_copy instead of open coding it? I added that
> too.

Probably, I looked for cpumask_assign() and on failing to find that used
the direct assignment.

So with that fix the patch makes the machine happy again?

Thanks!

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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [regression] 3.0-rc boot failure -- bisected to cd4ea6ae3982
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:45:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311158708.5345.12.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110720201436.19e9689a@kryten>

On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 20:14 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:

> > That looks very strange indeed.. up to node 23 there is the normal
> > symmetric matrix with all the trace elements on 10 (as we would expect
> > for local access), and some 4x4 sub-matrix stacked around the trace
> > with 20, suggesting a single hop distance, and the rest on 40 being
> > out-there.
>=20
> I retested with the latest version of numactl, and get correct results.

One less thing to worry about ;-)

> I worked out why the patches don't boot, we weren't allocating any
> space for the cpumask and ran off the end of the allocation.

Gah! that's not the first time I made that particular mistake :/

> Should we also use cpumask_copy instead of open coding it? I added that
> too.

Probably, I looked for cpumask_assign() and on failing to find that used
the direct assignment.

So with that fix the patch makes the machine happy again?

Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-20 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-07 10:22 [regression] 3.0-rc boot failure -- bisected to cd4ea6ae3982 Mahesh J Salgaonkar
2011-07-07 10:22 ` Mahesh J Salgaonkar
2011-07-07 10:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-07 10:59   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-07 11:55   ` Mahesh J Salgaonkar
2011-07-07 11:55     ` Mahesh J Salgaonkar
2011-07-07 12:28     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-07 12:28       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-14  0:34   ` Anton Blanchard
2011-07-14  0:34     ` Anton Blanchard
2011-07-14  4:35     ` Anton Blanchard
2011-07-14  4:35       ` Anton Blanchard
2011-07-14 13:16       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-14 13:16         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-15  0:45         ` Anton Blanchard
2011-07-15  0:45           ` Anton Blanchard
2011-07-15  8:37           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-15  8:37             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-18 21:35           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-18 21:35             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-19  4:44             ` Anton Blanchard
2011-07-19  4:44               ` Anton Blanchard
2011-07-19 10:21               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-19 10:21                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-20  2:03                 ` Anton Blanchard
2011-07-20  2:03                   ` Anton Blanchard
2011-07-20 10:14                 ` Anton Blanchard
2011-07-20 10:14                   ` Anton Blanchard
2011-07-20 10:45                   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-07-20 10:45                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-20 12:14                     ` Anton Blanchard
2011-07-20 12:14                       ` Anton Blanchard
2011-07-20 14:40                       ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-20 14:40                         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-20 14:58                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-20 14:58                           ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-20 16:04                           ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-20 16:04                             ` Linus Torvalds
2011-07-20 16:42                             ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-20 16:42                               ` Ingo Molnar
2011-07-20 16:42                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-20 16:42                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-07-20 17:29                               ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched: Avoid creating superfluous NUMA domains on non-NUMA systems tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra

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