From: Yunsheng Lin <linyunsheng@huawei.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] numa: make node_to_cpumask_map() NUMA_NO_NODE aware
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 17:20:33 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1ec704df-97a5-04b7-1f20-8e3db19440a3@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191012074014.GA2037204@kroah.com>
On 2019/10/12 15:40, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 02:17:26PM +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
>> add pci and acpi maintainer
>> cc linux-pci@vger.kernel.org and linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
>>
>> On 2019/10/11 19:15, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 11:27:54AM +0800, Yunsheng Lin wrote:
>>>> But I failed to see why the above is related to making node_to_cpumask_map()
>>>> NUMA_NO_NODE aware?
>>>
>>> Your initial bug is for hns3, which is a PCI device, which really _MUST_
>>> have a node assigned.
>>>
>>> It not having one, is a straight up bug. We must not silently accept
>>> NO_NODE there, ever.
>>>
>>
>> I suppose you mean reporting a lack of affinity when the node of a pcie
>> device is not set by "not silently accept NO_NODE".
>
> If the firmware of a pci device does not provide the node information,
> then yes, warn about that.
>
>> As Greg has asked about in [1]:
>> what is a user to do when the user sees the kernel reporting that?
>>
>> We may tell user to contact their vendor for info or updates about
>> that when they do not know about their system well enough, but their
>> vendor may get away with this by quoting ACPI spec as the spec
>> considering this optional. Should the user believe this is indeed a
>> fw bug or a misreport from the kernel?
>
> Say it is a firmware bug, if it is a firmware bug, that's simple.
>
>> If this kind of reporting is common pratice and will not cause any
>> misunderstanding, then maybe we can report that.
>
> Yes, please do so, that's the only way those boxes are ever going to get
> fixed. And go add the test to the "firmware testing" tool that is based
> on Linux that Intel has somewhere, to give vendors a chance to fix this
> before they ship hardware.
>
> This shouldn't be a big deal, we warn of other hardware bugs all the
> time.
Hi, all.
The warning for the above case has been added in [1].
So maybe it makes sense to make node_to_cpumask_map() NUMA_NO_NODE aware
now?
If Yes, this patch still can be applied to the latest linus' tree cleanly,
Do I need to resend it?
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/1571467543-26125-1-git-send-email-linyunsheng@huawei.com/
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
> .
>
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2019-10-12 6:17 ` [PATCH v6] numa: make node_to_cpumask_map() NUMA_NO_NODE aware Yunsheng Lin
2019-10-12 7:40 ` Greg KH
2019-10-12 9:47 ` Yunsheng Lin
2019-10-12 10:40 ` Greg KH
2019-10-12 10:47 ` Greg KH
2019-10-14 8:00 ` Yunsheng Lin
2019-10-14 9:25 ` Greg KH
2019-10-14 9:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-10-14 10:04 ` Greg KH
2019-10-15 10:40 ` Yunsheng Lin
2019-10-15 16:58 ` Greg KH
2019-10-16 12:07 ` Yunsheng Lin
2019-10-28 9:20 ` Yunsheng Lin [this message]
2019-10-29 8:53 ` Michal Hocko
2019-10-30 1:58 ` Yunsheng Lin
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