linux/arch
Jon Mason d2105b10fe [PATCH] x86_64: Calgary IOMMU - Multi-Node NULL pointer dereference fix
Calgary hits a NULL pointer dereference when booting in a multi-chassis
NUMA system.  See Redhat bugzilla number 198498, found by Konrad
Rzeszutek (konradr@redhat.com).

There are many issues that had to be resolved to fix this problem.
Firstly when I originally wrote the code to handle NUMA systems, I
had a large misunderstanding that was not corrected until now.  That was
that I thought the "number of nodes online" referred to number of
physical systems connected.  So that if NUMA was disabled, there
would only be 1 node and it would only show that node's PCI bus.
In reality if NUMA is disabled, the system displays all of the
connected chassis as one node but is only ignorant of the delays
in accessing main memory.  Therefore, references to num_online_nodes()
and MAX_NUMNODES are incorrect and need to be set to the maximum
number of nodes that can be accessed (which are 8).  I created a
variable, MAX_NUM_CHASSIS, and set it to 8 to fix this.

Secondly, when walking the PCI in detect_calgary, the code only
checked the first "slot" when looking to see if a device is present.
This will work for most cases, but unfortunately it isn't always the
case.  In the NUMA MXE drawers, there are USB devices present on the
3rd slot (with slot 1 being empty).  So, to work around this, all
slots (up to 8) are scanned to see if there are any devices present.

Lastly, the bus is being enumerated on large systems in a different
way the we originally thought.  This throws the ugly logic we had
out the window.  To more elegantly handle this, I reorganized the
kva array to be sparse (which removed the need to have any bus number
to kva slot logic in tce.c) and created a secondary space array to
contain the bus number to phb mapping.

With these changes Calgary boots on an x460 with 4 nodes with and
without NUMA enabled.

Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-29 20:59:55 -07:00
..
alpha [PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.h 2006-07-10 13:24:16 -07:00
arm [ARM] arch/arm/kernel/bios32.c: no need to set isa_bridge 2006-07-13 16:14:26 +01:00
arm26 [PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.h 2006-07-10 13:24:16 -07:00
cris [PATCH] pcf8563: remove MOD_INC_USE_COUNT, MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT 2006-07-10 13:24:22 -07:00
frv [PATCH] FRV: Introduce asm-offsets for FRV arch 2006-07-10 13:24:22 -07:00
h8300 [PATCH] irq-flags: H8300: Use the new IRQF_ constants 2006-07-02 13:58:47 -07:00
i386 [PATCH] i386: Do backtrace fallback too 2006-07-28 19:28:00 -07:00
ia64 [PATCH] make valid_mmap_phys_addr_range() take a pfn 2006-07-10 13:24:25 -07:00
m32r [PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.h 2006-07-10 13:24:16 -07:00
m68k [PATCH] irq-flags: M68K: Use the new IRQF_ constants 2006-07-02 13:58:47 -07:00
m68knommu [PATCH] irq-flags: M68KNOMMU: Use the new IRQF_ constants 2006-07-02 13:58:47 -07:00
mips [MIPS] sparsemem: fix crash in show_mem 2006-07-13 21:26:22 +01:00
parisc [PATCH] vt: Remove VT-specific declarations and definitions from tty.h 2006-07-10 13:24:16 -07:00
powerpc [PATCH] powermac: Combined fixes for backlight code 2006-07-10 13:24:20 -07:00
ppc [PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.h 2006-07-10 13:24:16 -07:00
s390 [S390] update default configuration 2006-07-27 14:04:57 +02:00
sh [PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.h 2006-07-10 13:24:16 -07:00
sh64 [PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.h 2006-07-10 13:24:16 -07:00
sparc [SPARC]: Defer clock_probe to fs_initcall() 2006-07-27 22:08:01 -07:00
sparc64 [SPARC64]: Explicitly print return PC when the kernel fault PC is bogus. 2006-07-24 22:33:58 -07:00
um [PATCH] UML - fix utsname build breakage 2006-07-15 14:42:24 -07:00
v850 [PATCH] irq-flags: V850: Use the new IRQF_ constants 2006-07-02 13:58:48 -07:00
x86_64 [PATCH] x86_64: Calgary IOMMU - Multi-Node NULL pointer dereference fix 2006-07-29 20:59:55 -07:00
xtensa [PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.h 2006-07-10 13:24:16 -07:00