Re: [PATCH 2/2] numa: Parse initiator= attribute before cpus= attribute

[Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>]

On Wed,  7 Jul 2021 15:40:30 +0200
Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> wrote:

> When parsing cpus= attribute of -numa object couple of checks
> is performed, such as correct initiator setting (see the if()
> statement at the end of for() loop in
> machine_set_cpu_numa_node()).
> 
> However, with the current code cpus= attribute is parsed before
> initiator= attribute and thus the check may fail even though it
> is not obvious why. But since parsing the initiator= attribute
> does not depend on the cpus= attribute we can swap the order of
> the two.

Reviewed-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>

FYI:
I'm planning to deprecate '-numa node,cpus=' in favor of '-numa cpu'.


> It's fairly easy to reproduce with the following command line
> (snippet of an actual cmd line):
> 
>   -smp 4,sockets=4,cores=1,threads=1 \
>   -object '{"qom-type":"memory-backend-ram","id":"ram-node0","size":2147483648}' \
>   -numa node,nodeid=0,cpus=0-1,initiator=0,memdev=ram-node0 \
>   -object '{"qom-type":"memory-backend-ram","id":"ram-node1","size":2147483648}' \
>   -numa node,nodeid=1,cpus=2-3,initiator=1,memdev=ram-node1 \
>   -numa hmat-lb,initiator=0,target=0,hierarchy=memory,data-type=access-latency,latency=5 \
>   -numa hmat-lb,initiator=0,target=0,hierarchy=first-level,data-type=access-latency,latency=10 \
>   -numa hmat-lb,initiator=1,target=1,hierarchy=memory,data-type=access-latency,latency=5 \
>   -numa hmat-lb,initiator=1,target=1,hierarchy=first-level,data-type=access-latency,latency=10 \
>   -numa hmat-lb,initiator=0,target=0,hierarchy=memory,data-type=access-bandwidth,bandwidth=204800K \
>   -numa hmat-lb,initiator=0,target=0,hierarchy=first-level,data-type=access-bandwidth,bandwidth=208896K \
>   -numa hmat-lb,initiator=1,target=1,hierarchy=memory,data-type=access-bandwidth,bandwidth=204800K \
>   -numa hmat-lb,initiator=1,target=1,hierarchy=first-level,data-type=access-bandwidth,bandwidth=208896K \
>   -numa hmat-cache,node-id=0,size=10K,level=1,associativity=direct,policy=write-back,line=8 \
>   -numa hmat-cache,node-id=1,size=10K,level=1,associativity=direct,policy=write-back,line=8 \
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
> ---
>  hw/core/numa.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/core/numa.c b/hw/core/numa.c
> index 1058d3697b..510d096a88 100644
> --- a/hw/core/numa.c
> +++ b/hw/core/numa.c
> @@ -88,6 +88,29 @@ static void parse_numa_node(MachineState *ms, NumaNodeOptions *node,
>          return;
>      }
>  
> +    /*
> +     * If not set the initiator, set it to MAX_NODES. And if
> +     * HMAT is enabled and this node has no cpus, QEMU will raise error.
> +     */
> +    numa_info[nodenr].initiator = MAX_NODES;
> +    if (node->has_initiator) {
> +        if (!ms->numa_state->hmat_enabled) {
> +            error_setg(errp, "ACPI Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table "
> +                       "(HMAT) is disabled, enable it with -machine hmat=on "
> +                       "before using any of hmat specific options");
> +            return;
> +        }
> +
> +        if (node->initiator >= MAX_NODES) {
> +            error_report("The initiator id %" PRIu16 " expects an integer "
> +                         "between 0 and %d", node->initiator,
> +                         MAX_NODES - 1);
> +            return;
> +        }
> +
> +        numa_info[nodenr].initiator = node->initiator;
> +    }
> +
>      for (cpus = node->cpus; cpus; cpus = cpus->next) {
>          CpuInstanceProperties props;
>          if (cpus->value >= max_cpus) {
> @@ -142,28 +165,6 @@ static void parse_numa_node(MachineState *ms, NumaNodeOptions *node,
>          numa_info[nodenr].node_memdev = MEMORY_BACKEND(o);
>      }
>  
> -    /*
> -     * If not set the initiator, set it to MAX_NODES. And if
> -     * HMAT is enabled and this node has no cpus, QEMU will raise error.
> -     */
> -    numa_info[nodenr].initiator = MAX_NODES;
> -    if (node->has_initiator) {
> -        if (!ms->numa_state->hmat_enabled) {
> -            error_setg(errp, "ACPI Heterogeneous Memory Attribute Table "
> -                       "(HMAT) is disabled, enable it with -machine hmat=on "
> -                       "before using any of hmat specific options");
> -            return;
> -        }
> -
> -        if (node->initiator >= MAX_NODES) {
> -            error_report("The initiator id %" PRIu16 " expects an integer "
> -                         "between 0 and %d", node->initiator,
> -                         MAX_NODES - 1);
> -            return;
> -        }
> -
> -        numa_info[nodenr].initiator = node->initiator;
> -    }
>      numa_info[nodenr].present = true;
>      max_numa_nodeid = MAX(max_numa_nodeid, nodenr + 1);
>      ms->numa_state->num_nodes++;