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    powerpc/numa: Use ibm,max-associativity-domains to discover possible nodes · a346137e
    Michael Bringmann authored
    On powerpc systems which allow 'hot-add' of CPU or memory resources,
    it may occur that the new resources are to be inserted into nodes that
    were not used for these resources at bootup. In the kernel, any node
    that is used must be defined and initialized. These empty nodes may
    occur when,
    
    * Dedicated vs. shared resources. Shared resources require information
      such as the VPHN hcall for CPU assignment to nodes. Associativity
      decisions made based on dedicated resource rules, such as
      associativity properties in the device tree, may vary from decisions
      made using the values returned by the VPHN hcall.
    
    * memoryless nodes at boot. Nodes need to be defined as 'possible' at
      boot for operation with other code modules. Previously, the powerpc
      code would limit the set of possible nodes to those which have
      memory assigned at boot, and were thus online. Subsequent add/remove
      of CPUs or memory would only work with this subset of possible
      nodes.
    
    * memoryless nodes with CPUs at boot. Due to the previous restriction
      on nodes, nodes that had CPUs but no memory were being collapsed
      into other nodes that did have memory at boot. In practice this
      meant that the node assignment presented by the runtime kernel
      differed from the affinity and associativity attributes presented by
      the device tree or VPHN hcalls. Nodes that might be known to the
      pHyp were not 'possible' in the runtime kernel because they did not
      have memory at boot.
    
    This patch ensures that sufficient nodes are defined to support
    configuration requirements after boot, as well as at boot. This patch
    set fixes a couple of problems.
    
    * 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 to one of the set of nodes that were known to
      have memory at boot.
    
    This patch extracts the value of the lowest domain level (number of
    allocable resources) from the device tree property
    "ibm,max-associativity-domains" to use as the maximum number of nodes
    to setup as possibly available in the system. This new setting will
    override the instruction:
    
        nodes_and(node_possible_map, node_possible_map, node_online_map);
    
    presently seen in the function arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c:initmem_init().
    
    If the "ibm,max-associativity-domains" property is not present at
    boot, no operation will be performed to define or enable additional
    nodes, or enable the above 'nodes_and()'.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Bringmann <mwb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarNathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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