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This patch fixes some problems encountered at runtime with configurations that support memory-less nodes, or that hot-add CPUs into nodes that are memoryless during system execution after boot. The problems of interest include: * Nodes known to powerpc to be memoryless at boot, but to have CPUs in them are allowed to be 'possible' and 'online'. Memory allocations for those nodes are taken from another node that does have memory until and if memory is hot-added to the node. * Nodes which have no resources assigned at boot, but which may still be referenced subsequently by affinity or associativity attributes, are kept in the list of 'possible' nodes for powerpc. Hot-add of memory or CPUs to the system can reference these nodes and bring them online instead of redirecting the references to one of the set of nodes known to have memory at boot. Note that this software operates under the context of CPU hotplug. We are not doing memory hotplug in this code, but rather updating the kernel's CPU topology (i.e. arch_update_cpu_topology / numa_update_cpu_topology). We are initializing a node that may be used by CPUs or memory before it can be referenced as invalid by a CPU hotplug operation. CPU hotplug operations are protected by a range of APIs including cpu_maps_update_begin/cpu_maps_update_done, cpus_read/write_lock / cpus_read/write_unlock, device locks, and more. Memory hotplug operations, including try_online_node, are protected by mem_hotplug_begin/mem_hotplug_done, device locks, and more. In the case of CPUs being hot-added to a previously memoryless node, the try_online_node operation occurs wholly within the CPU locks with no overlap. Using HMC hot-add/hot-remove operations, we have been able to add and remove CPUs to any possible node without failures. HMC operations involve a degree self-serialization, though. Signed-off-by: Michael Bringmann <mwb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> |
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README
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.