Re: PROBLEM: OOPSes in PREEMPT SMP for AMD Opteron Dual-Core with Memhole Mapping (non tainted kernel)

[Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 07:53:16PM +0000, Jacob Martin wrote:
> On Monday 13 June 2005 10:06 am, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:29:50PM -0400, Jacob Martin wrote:
> > > Hardware memhole mapping never seems to work, or causes lockups right
> > > away.  I need to test it further though.
> > >
> > > I have discovered that with the following features enabled:
> > >
> > > 1.  Software memhole mapping
> > > 2.  Continuous,
> > >
> > > linux sees the entire 4GB of memory.  However, when things start getting
> > > requested from the upper half, there are Oopses generated.  Attached are
> > > two Oopses that occurred under the test scenario described.
> >
> > What happens when you boot with numa=off or with numa=noacpi ?
> 
> You got it!  It seems to be working just fine without it compiled into the 
> kernel.

Not compiled what in the kernel? I just wanted you to boot
the kernel with these options. 


> 
> > The system seems to believe it has memory in an area not covered
> > by mem_map.
> 
> I think you hit it right on the head.
> 
> I enabled NUMA because I had anticipated upgrading later.  So I guess if you 
> don't actually have NUMA set up hardware-wise, and enable this module, then 
> you will have problems.

No, it should work fine in theory. 

> 
> Maybe a simple update to the kernel "K8 NUMA support" Processor feature's help 
> section should be made to note this?  Or, is there something that could be 
> fixed somewhere.  I wouldn't mind helping, it was baffling me for two weeks.

It is something that must be either fixed or workarounded (if it's a bug
in your BIOS, which is quite possible) 

Can you send me the full dmesg from a numa boot again? 

-Andi