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From: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] ppc64: Convert cpu_sibling_map to a per_cpu data array (v3)
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:22:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46EE9BCF.3040303@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070917162831.b2a9d675.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:56:53 -0700 travis@sgi.com wrote:
>> Convert cpu_sibling_map to a per_cpu cpumask_t array for the ppc64
>> architecture.  This fixes build errors in block/blktrace.c and
>> kernel/sched.c when CONFIG_SCHED_SMT is defined.
>>
>> Note: these changes have not been built nor tested.
> 
> After applying all 10 patches, the ppc64_defconfig builds but:
> 
> 	vmlinux is larger:
> 
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 7705776 1756984  504624 9967384  981718 ppc64/vmlinux
> 7706228 1757120  504624 9967972  981964 trav.bld/vmlinux
> 
> 	the topology (on my POWERPC5+ box) is not correct:
> 
> cpu0/topology/thread_siblings:0000000f
> cpu1/topology/thread_siblings:0000000f
> cpu2/topology/thread_siblings:0000000f
> cpu3/topology/thread_siblings:0000000f
> 
> it used to be:
> 
> cpu0/topology/thread_siblings:00000003
> cpu1/topology/thread_siblings:00000003
> cpu2/topology/thread_siblings:0000000c
> cpu3/topology/thread_siblings:0000000c
> 
> Similarly on my iSeries box, the topology is displayed as above
> while it used to be:
> 
> cpu0/topology/thread_siblings:00000001
> cpu1/topology/thread_siblings:00000002
> cpu2/topology/thread_siblings:00000004
> cpu3/topology/thread_siblings:00000008
> 

Thanks Stephen for the feedback.  It may be the same situation
that some of the other arch's encounter in that the per_cpu
area is being accessed before it's setup.  I'll investigate
that a bit more.

Mike

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-17 15:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-12  1:56 [PATCH 00/10] x86: Reduce Memory Usage and Inter-Node message traffic (v3) travis
2007-09-12  1:56 ` [PATCH 01/10] x86: remove x86_cpu_to_log_apicid array (v3) travis
2007-09-12  1:56 ` [PATCH 02/10] x86: fix cpu_to_node references (v3) travis
2007-09-12  1:56 ` [PATCH 03/10] x86: Convert cpu_core_map to be a per cpu variable (v3) travis
2007-09-12  1:56 ` [PATCH 04/10] x86: Convert cpu_sibling_map " travis
2007-09-12  1:56 ` [PATCH 05/10] x86: Convert x86_cpu_to_apicid " travis
2007-09-12  1:56 ` [PATCH 06/10] x86: Convert cpu_llc_id " travis
2007-09-12  1:56 ` [PATCH 07/10] x86: acpi-use-cpu_physical_id (v3) travis
2007-09-12  1:56 ` [PATCH 08/10] ia64: Convert cpu_sibling_map to a per_cpu data array (v3) travis
2007-09-28  9:49   ` Paul Jackson
2007-10-03 19:22     ` Mike Travis
2007-09-12  1:56 ` [PATCH 09/10] ppc64: " travis
2007-09-17  6:28   ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-09-17  6:39     ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-09-17 15:22     ` Mike Travis [this message]
2007-09-12  1:56 ` [PATCH 10/10] sparc64: " travis
2007-09-13  9:53 ` [PATCH 00/10] x86: Reduce Memory Usage and Inter-Node message traffic (v3) Andi Kleen
2007-09-14 23:32 ` Andrew Morton

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