Re: 2.6.24 git2/mm1: cpu_to_node mapping to non-existant nodes causing boot failure

Mike Travis
2008-02-27T14:38:08Z

Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote:
>> On (19/02/08 08:12), Mike Travis didst pronounce:
>>
>>> Mike Travis wrote:
>> > > Mel Gorman wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> If you send me patches to apply on top of 2.6.25-rc1, I'll give them a spin
>> > >> on the machine in question. Reverting didn't work out very well as there are
>> > >> too many collisions with patches that were applied later. I eventually got
>> > >> the machine booting but it only succeeds because it only brings up one core
>> > >> on each processor. The patch, which is pretty brain damaged is below in case
>> > >> it helps you guess what the real problem is. dmesg logs are attached of the
>> > >> vanilla failure with acpi=debug and the log with the patch applied showing
>> > >> "__cpu_up: bad cpu 1" and "__cpu_up: bad cpu3" (i.e. the second cores of
>> > >> each machine).
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > > This should completely undo the change to 16 bit apic ids until we can figure
>> > > out the problem with the memory-less nodes. I checked it on both the numa
>> > > and non-numa x86_64 box.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > Mike
>> > >
>> >
>> > Hi Mel,
>> >
>> > Did you get a chance to try out this patch to see if it cleared up the problem
>> > booting on your x86_64 numa box?
>
> did it fail with x86.git#testing?
>
> YH

Hi,

My problem is that I haven't been able to set up a NUMA box where some of the nodes
have no memory. The one box we have, the serial port doesn't work and it's in a lab
far, far away. Everything else, it works fine.

Mike