[PATCH 0/1] mm/fake-numa: allow later numa node hotplug

Bruno Faccini
2025-01-06T12:07:43Z

When trying to use fake-numa feature on our system where new
Numa nodes are being "hot-plugged" upon driver load, this fails
with the following type of message and warning with stack :

node 8 was absent from the node_possible_map
WARNING: CPU: 61 PID: 4259 at mm/memory_hotplug.c:1506
add_memory_resource+0x3dc/0x418

This issue prevents the use of the fake-NUMA debug feature with
the system's full configuration, when it has proven to be sometimes
extremely useful for performance testing of multi-tasked,
memory-bound applications, as it enables better isolation of
processes/ranks compared to fat NUMA nodes.

Usual numactl output after driver has “hot-plugged”/unveiled some
new Numa nodes with and without memory :
$ numactl --hardware
available: 9 nodes (0-8)
node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
65 66 67 68 69 70 71
node 0 size: 490037 MB
node 0 free: 484432 MB
node 1 cpus:
node 1 size: 97280 MB
node 1 free: 97279 MB
node 2 cpus:
node 2 size: 0 MB
node 2 free: 0 MB
node 3 cpus:
node 3 size: 0 MB
node 3 free: 0 MB
node 4 cpus:
node 4 size: 0 MB
node 4 free: 0 MB
node 5 cpus:
node 5 size: 0 MB
node 5 free: 0 MB
node 6 cpus:
node 6 size: 0 MB
node 6 free: 0 MB
node 7 cpus:
node 7 size: 0 MB
node 7 free: 0 MB
node 8 cpus:
node 8 size: 0 MB
node 8 free: 0 MB
node distances:
node 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
0: 10 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
1: 80 10 255 255 255 255 255 255 255
2: 80 255 10 255 255 255 255 255 255
3: 80 255 255 10 255 255 255 255 255
4: 80 255 255 255 10 255 255 255 255
5: 80 255 255 255 255 10 255 255 255
6: 80 255 255 255 255 255 10 255 255
7: 80 255 255 255 255 255 255 10 255
8: 80 255 255 255 255 255 255 255 10

With recent M.Rapoport set of fake-numa patches in mm-everything
and using numa=fake=4 boot parameter :
$ numactl --hardware
available: 4 nodes (0-3)
node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
65 66 67 68 69 70 71
node 0 size: 122518 MB
node 0 free: 117141 MB
node 1 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
65 66 67 68 69 70 71
node 1 size: 219911 MB
node 1 free: 219751 MB
node 2 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
65 66 67 68 69 70 71
node 2 size: 122599 MB
node 2 free: 122541 MB
node 3 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
65 66 67 68 69 70 71
node 3 size: 122479 MB
node 3 free: 122408 MB
node distances:
node 0 1 2 3
0: 10 10 10 10
1: 10 10 10 10
2: 10 10 10 10
3: 10 10 10 10

With recent M.Rapoport set of fake-numa patches in mm-everything,
this patch on top, using numa=fake=4 boot parameter :
# numactl —hardware
available: 12 nodes (0-11)
node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
65 66 67 68 69 70 71
node 0 size: 122518 MB
node 0 free: 116429 MB
node 1 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
65 66 67 68 69 70 71
node 1 size: 122631 MB
node 1 free: 122576 MB
node 2 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
65 66 67 68 69 70 71
node 2 size: 122599 MB
node 2 free: 122544 MB
node 3 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
65 66 67 68 69 70 71
node 3 size: 122479 MB
node 3 free: 122419 MB
node 4 cpus:
node 4 size: 97280 MB
node 4 free: 97279 MB
node 5 cpus:
node 5 size: 0 MB
node 5 free: 0 MB
node 6 cpus:
node 6 size: 0 MB
node 6 free: 0 MB
node 7 cpus:
node 7 size: 0 MB
node 7 free: 0 MB
node 8 cpus:
node 8 size: 0 MB
node 8 free: 0 MB
node 9 cpus:
node 9 size: 0 MB
node 9 free: 0 MB
node 10 cpus:
node 10 size: 0 MB
node 10 free: 0 MB
node 11 cpus:
node 11 size: 0 MB
node 11 free: 0 MB
node distances:
node 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
0: 10 10 10 10 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
1: 10 10 10 10 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
2: 10 10 10 10 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
3: 10 10 10 10 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80
4: 80 80 80 80 10 255 255 255 255 255 255 255
5: 80 80 80 80 255 10 255 255 255 255 255 255
6: 80 80 80 80 255 255 10 255 255 255 255 255
7: 80 80 80 80 255 255 255 10 255 255 255 255
8: 80 80 80 80 255 255 255 255 10 255 255 255
9: 80 80 80 80 255 255 255 255 255 10 255 255
10: 80 80 80 80 255 255 255 255 255 255 10 255
11: 80 80 80 80 255 255 255 255 255 255 255 10

Bruno Faccini (1):
mm/fake-numa: allow later numa node hotplug

drivers/acpi/numa/srat.c | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/acpi/acpi_numa.h | 5 +++
include/linux/numa_memblks.h | 3 ++
mm/numa_emulation.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++---
mm/numa_memblks.c | 2 +-
5 files changed, 133 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

base-commit: 4c10320ffbe7d6273b153b112a6e5f9b61ac008a
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