Re: [PATCH 2/6] spapr_numa: forbid asymmetrical NUMA setups

[Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>]

On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 16:34:54 -0300
Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com> wrote:

> The pSeries machine does not support asymmetrical NUMA
> configurations. This doesn't make much of a different
> since we're not using user input for pSeries NUMA setup,
> but this will change in the next patches.
> 
> To avoid breaking existing setups, gate this change by
> checking for legacy NUMA support.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
> ---
>  hw/ppc/spapr_numa.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_numa.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_numa.c
> index 64fe567f5d..36aaa273ee 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_numa.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_numa.c
> @@ -19,6 +19,24 @@
>  /* Moved from hw/ppc/spapr_pci_nvlink2.c */
>  #define SPAPR_GPU_NUMA_ID           (cpu_to_be32(1))
>  
> +static bool spapr_numa_is_symmetrical(MachineState *ms)
> +{
> +    int src, dst;
> +    int nb_numa_nodes = ms->numa_state->num_nodes;
> +    NodeInfo *numa_info = ms->numa_state->nodes;
> +
> +    for (src = 0; src < nb_numa_nodes; src++) {
> +        for (dst = src; dst < nb_numa_nodes; dst++) {
> +            if (numa_info[src].distance[dst] !=
> +                numa_info[dst].distance[src]) {
> +                return false;
> +            }
> +        }
> +    }
> +
> +    return true;
> +}
> +
>  void spapr_numa_associativity_init(SpaprMachineState *spapr,
>                                     MachineState *machine)
>  {
> @@ -61,6 +79,22 @@ void spapr_numa_associativity_init(SpaprMachineState *spapr,
>  
>          spapr->numa_assoc_array[i][MAX_DISTANCE_REF_POINTS] = cpu_to_be32(i);
>      }
> +
> +    /*
> +     * Legacy NUMA guests (pseries-5.1 and order, or guests with only

s/order/older

> +     * 1 NUMA node) will not benefit from anything we're going to do
> +     * after this point.
> +     */
> +    if (spapr_machine_using_legacy_numa(spapr)) {
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
> +    if (!spapr_numa_is_symmetrical(machine)) {
> +        error_report("Asymmetrical NUMA topologies aren't supported "
> +                     "in the pSeries machine");
> +        exit(1);

Even if the code base is still heavily populated with exit(1), it seems
that exit(EXIT_FAILURE) is preferred.

Anyway,

Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>

> +    }
> +
>  }
>  
>  void spapr_numa_write_associativity_dt(SpaprMachineState *spapr, void *fdt,