Re: kexec boot regression

Yinghai Lu
2009-12-15T21:44:24Z

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Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15 2009, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 15 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>> Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Dec 15 2009, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 15 2009, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 15 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>>>>> Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 15 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 15 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 15 2009, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> [PATCH] x86/pci: intel ioh bus num reg accessing fix
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> it is above 0x100, so if mmconf is not enable, need to skip it
>>>>>>>>>>>> This works, it kexecs kernels fine. But since 2.6.32 doesn't have the
>>>>>>>>>>>> mmconf problem to begin with, are we now just working around the issue?
>>>>>>>>>>>> SRAT still reports issues, numa doesn't work.
>>>>>>>>>>> that patch will be bullet proof... we need it.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> also still need to figure out why memmap range is not passed properly.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> do you mean 2.6.32 kexec 2.6.32 it have worked mmconf and numa in
>>>>>>>>>>> second kernel?
>>>>>>>>>> Yes, 2.6.32 booted and 2.6.32 kexec'ed works just fine, no SRAT
>>>>>>>>>> complaints and NUMA works fine.
>>>>>>>>> do you need
>>>>>>>>> memmap=62G@4G
>>>>>>>>> in this case?
>>>>>>>> Yes, I've needed that always.
>>>>>>> good,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> can you enable debug option in kexec to see why kexec can not pass
>>>>>>> whole 38? range to second kernel?
>>>>>> Not getting any output so far, -d doesn't do much. Poking around in the
>>>>>> source...
>>>>> OK, cold boot and kexec 2.0.1 gets all 39 ranges passed properly to
>>>>> kexec'ed kernels. Since the older kexec stopped at range 30 (31 ranges
>>>>> total), that smells like just a kexec bug. Retesting -git...
>>>> Current -git works fine when all the ranges are passed correctly. So, I
>>>> think, the only existing regression is the SRAT issue.
>>> did you change node_shift?
>> Yes:
>>
>> CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT=6
>>
>> What I don't get is that 2.6.32 and -git print the same PXM map, and in
>> both cases it's totalling exactly 64G. Yet it says:
>>
>> SRAT: PXMs only cover 49035MB of your 65419MB e820 RAM. Not used.
>
> Clue:
>
> [ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 0-80000000
> [ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 100000000-480000000
> [ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 2 PXM 1 480000000-880000000
> [ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 1 PXM 2 880000000-c80000000
> [ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 3 PXM 3 c80000000-1080000000
> [ 0.000000] NUMA: Using 31 for the hash shift.
> [ 0.000000] pxm0: 0-480000 (4718592), absent 553990
> [ 0.000000] pxm1: 880000-c80000 (4194304), absent 0
> [ 0.000000] pxm2: 480000-880000 (4194304), absent 4194304
> [ 0.000000] pxm3: c80000-1080000 (4194304), absent 0
> [ 0.000000] SRAT: PXMs only cover 49035MB of your 65419MB e820 RAM. Not used.
> [ 0.000000] SRAT: SRAT not used.
>

oh, i post one patch last week,

can you check it?

YH

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From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] x86: fix checking of SRAT when node0 ram is not from 0 -v2
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:33:38 -0800
Message-ID: <4B2579D2.3010201@kernel.org>

Found one system that boot from socket1 instead of socket0, SRAT get rejected...

[ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 1 PXM 0 0-a0000
[ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 1 PXM 0 100000-80000000
[ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 1 PXM 0 100000000-2080000000
[ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 0 PXM 1 2080000000-4080000000
[ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 2 PXM 2 4080000000-6080000000
[ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 3 PXM 3 6080000000-8080000000
[ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 4 PXM 4 8080000000-a080000000
[ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 5 PXM 5 a080000000-c080000000
[ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 6 PXM 6 c080000000-e080000000
[ 0.000000] SRAT: Node 7 PXM 7 e080000000-10080000000
...
[ 0.000000] NUMA: Allocated memnodemap from 500000 - 701040
[ 0.000000] NUMA: Using 20 for the hash shift.
[ 0.000000] Adding active range (0, 0x2080000, 0x4080000) 0 entries of 3200 used
[ 0.000000] Adding active range (1, 0x0, 0x96) 1 entries of 3200 used
[ 0.000000] Adding active range (1, 0x100, 0x7f750) 2 entries of 3200 used
[ 0.000000] Adding active range (1, 0x100000, 0x2080000) 3 entries of 3200 used
[ 0.000000] Adding active range (2, 0x4080000, 0x6080000) 4 entries of 3200 used
[ 0.000000] Adding active range (3, 0x6080000, 0x8080000) 5 entries of 3200 used
[ 0.000000] Adding active range (4, 0x8080000, 0xa080000) 6 entries of 3200 used
[ 0.000000] Adding active range (5, 0xa080000, 0xc080000) 7 entries of 3200 used
[ 0.000000] Adding active range (6, 0xc080000, 0xe080000) 8 entries of 3200 used
[ 0.000000] Adding active range (7, 0xe080000, 0x10080000) 9 entries of 3200 used
[ 0.000000] SRAT: PXMs only cover 917504MB of your 1048566MB e820 RAM. Not used.
[ 0.000000] SRAT: SRAT not used.

the early_node_map is not sorted because node0 with non zero start come first.

so try to sort it right away after all regions are registered.

-v2: make it more solid to handle cross node case like node0 [0,4g), [8,12g) and node1 [4g, 8g), [12g, 16g)

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>

---
arch/x86/mm/srat_32.c | 2 ++
arch/x86/mm/srat_64.c | 4 +++-
include/linux/mm.h | 3 +++
mm/page_alloc.c | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/srat_32.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/mm/srat_32.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/srat_32.c
@@ -267,6 +267,8 @@ int __init get_memcfg_from_srat(void)
e820_register_active_regions(chunk->nid, chunk->start_pfn,
min(chunk->end_pfn, max_pfn));
}
+ /* for out of order entries in SRAT */
+ sort_node_map();

for_each_online_node(nid) {
unsigned long start = node_start_pfn[nid];
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/srat_64.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/arch/x86/mm/srat_64.c
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/srat_64.c
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ static int __init nodes_cover_memory(con
unsigned long s = nodes[i].start >> PAGE_SHIFT;
unsigned long e = nodes[i].end >> PAGE_SHIFT;
pxmram += e - s;
- pxmram -= absent_pages_in_range(s, e);
+ pxmram -= __absent_pages_in_range(i, s, e);
if ((long)pxmram < 0)
pxmram = 0;
}
@@ -373,6 +373,8 @@ int __init acpi_scan_nodes(unsigned long
for_each_node_mask(i, nodes_parsed)
e820_register_active_regions(i, nodes[i].start >> PAGE_SHIFT,
nodes[i].end >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+ /* for out of order entries in SRAT */
+ sort_node_map();
if (!nodes_cover_memory(nodes)) {
bad_srat();
return -1;
Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/mm.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/mm.h
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1022,6 +1022,9 @@ extern void add_active_range(unsigned in
extern void remove_active_range(unsigned int nid, unsigned long start_pfn,
unsigned long end_pfn);
extern void remove_all_active_ranges(void);
+void sort_node_map(void);
+unsigned long __absent_pages_in_range(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn,
+ unsigned long end_pfn);
extern unsigned long absent_pages_in_range(unsigned long start_pfn,
unsigned long end_pfn);
extern void get_pfn_range_for_nid(unsigned int nid,
Index: linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3573,7 +3573,7 @@ static unsigned long __meminit zone_span
* Return the number of holes in a range on a node. If nid is MAX_NUMNODES,
* then all holes in the requested range will be accounted for.
*/
-static unsigned long __meminit __absent_pages_in_range(int nid,
+unsigned long __meminit __absent_pages_in_range(int nid,
unsigned long range_start_pfn,
unsigned long range_end_pfn)
{
@@ -4102,7 +4102,7 @@ static int __init cmp_node_active_region
}

/* sort the node_map by start_pfn */
-static void __init sort_node_map(void)
+void __init sort_node_map(void)
{
sort(early_node_map, (size_t)nr_nodemap_entries,
sizeof(struct node_active_region),