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We have seen an issue with guest boot into LDOM that causes early boot failures because of no matching rules for node identitity of the memory. I analyzed this on my T4 and concluded there might not be a solution. I saw the issue in mainline too when booting into the control/primary domain - with guests configured. Note, this could be a firmware bug on some older machines. I'll provide a full explanation of the issues below. Should we not find a matching BEST latency group for a real address (RA) then we will assume node 0. On the T4-2 here with the information provided I can't see an alternative. Technically the LDOM shown below should match the MBLOCK to the favorable latency group. However other factors must be considered too. Were the memory controllers configured "fine" grained interleave or "coarse" grain interleaved - T4. Also should a "group" MD node be considered a NUMA node? There has to be at least one Machine Description (MD) "group" and hence one NUMA node. The group can have one or more latency groups (lg) - more than one memory controller. The current code chooses the smallest latency as the most favorable per group. The latency and lg information is in MLGROUP below. MBLOCK is the base and size of the RAs for the machine as fetched from OBP /memory "available" property. My machine has one MBLOCK but more would be possible - with holes? For a T4-2 the following information has been gathered: with LDOM guest MEMBLOCK configuration: memory size = 0x27f870000 memory.cnt = 0x3 memory[0x0] [0x00000020400000-0x0000029fc67fff], 0x27f868000 bytes memory[0x1] [0x0000029fd8a000-0x0000029fd8bfff], 0x2000 bytes memory[0x2] [0x0000029fd92000-0x0000029fd97fff], 0x6000 bytes reserved.cnt = 0x2 reserved[0x0] [0x00000020800000-0x000000216c15c0], 0xec15c1 bytes reserved[0x1] [0x00000024800000-0x0000002c180c1e], 0x7980c1f bytes MBLOCK[0]: base[20000000] size[280000000] offset[0] (note: "base" and "size" reported in "MBLOCK" encompass the "memory[X]" values) (note: (RA + offset) & mask = val is the formula to detect a match for the memory controller. should there be no match for find_node node, a return value of -1 resulted for the node - BAD) There is one group. It has these forward links MLGROUP[1]: node[545] latency[1f7e8] match[200000000] mask[200000000] MLGROUP[2]: node[54d] latency[2de60] match[0] mask[200000000] NUMA NODE[0]: node[545] mask[200000000] val[200000000] (latency[1f7e8]) (note: "val" is the best lg's (smallest latency) "match") no LDOM guest - bare metal MEMBLOCK configuration: memory size = 0xfdf2d0000 memory.cnt = 0x3 memory[0x0] [0x00000020400000-0x00000fff6adfff], 0xfdf2ae000 bytes memory[0x1] [0x00000fff6d2000-0x00000fff6e7fff], 0x16000 bytes memory[0x2] [0x00000fff766000-0x00000fff771fff], 0xc000 bytes reserved.cnt = 0x2 reserved[0x0] [0x00000020800000-0x00000021a04580], 0x1204581 bytes reserved[0x1] [0x00000024800000-0x0000002c7d29fc], 0x7fd29fd bytes MBLOCK[0]: base[20000000] size[fe0000000] offset[0] there are two groups group node[16d5] MLGROUP[0]: node[1765] latency[1f7e8] match[0] mask[200000000] MLGROUP[3]: node[177d] latency[2de60] match[200000000] mask[200000000] NUMA NODE[0]: node[1765] mask[200000000] val[0] (latency[1f7e8]) group node[171d] MLGROUP[2]: node[1775] latency[2de60] match[0] mask[200000000] MLGROUP[1]: node[176d] latency[1f7e8] match[200000000] mask[200000000] NUMA NODE[1]: node[176d] mask[200000000] val[200000000] (latency[1f7e8]) (note: for this two "group" bare metal machine, 1/2 memory is in group one's lg and 1/2 memory is in group two's lg). Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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