From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com>
Cc: Naman Jain <namjain@linux.microsoft.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>,
Saurabh Singh Sengar <ssengar@linux.microsoft.com>,
srivatsa@csail.mit.edu, Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] sched/topology: Enable topology_span_sane check only for debug builds
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 11:16:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250205101600.GC7145@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0835864f-6dc5-430d-91c0-b5605007d9d2@amd.com>
On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 03:43:54PM +0530, K Prateek Nayak wrote:
> Hello Peter,
>
> Thank you for the background!
>
> On 2/5/2025 3:25 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 03:18:24PM +0530, K Prateek Nayak wrote:
> >
> > > Have there been any reports on an x86 system / VM where
> > > topology_span_sane() was tripped?
> >
> > At the very least Intel SNC 'feature' tripped it at some point. They
> > figured it made sense to have the LLC span two nodes.
> >
> > But I think there were some really dodgy VMs too.
> >
> > But yeah, its not been often. But basically dodgy BIOS/VM data can mess
> > up things badly enough for it to trip.
>
> Has it ever happened without tripping the topology_sane() check first
> on the x86 side?
That I can't remember, sorry :/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-05 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-03 11:47 [PATCH v3] sched/topology: Enable topology_span_sane check only for debug builds Naman Jain
2025-02-05 7:20 ` K Prateek Nayak
2025-02-05 7:23 ` Naman Jain
2025-02-10 9:53 ` Naman Jain
2025-02-05 9:48 ` K Prateek Nayak
2025-02-05 9:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2025-02-05 10:13 ` K Prateek Nayak
2025-02-05 10:16 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2025-02-06 9:10 ` K Prateek Nayak
2025-02-06 9:47 ` Naman Jain
2025-02-06 10:19 ` K Prateek Nayak
2025-02-06 10:55 ` Naman Jain
2025-02-06 15:24 ` Valentin Schneider
2025-02-06 15:30 ` Steve Wahl
2025-02-06 17:18 ` Naman Jain
2025-02-07 2:44 ` K Prateek Nayak
2025-02-11 5:52 ` Shrikanth Hegde
2025-02-11 7:06 ` Naman Jain
2025-02-11 10:56 ` K Prateek Nayak
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