Subject: Re: power9 NUMA crash while reading debugfs imc_cmd

From: Qian Cai <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 09:00:53 -0400

On Fri, 2019-06-28 at 17:19 +0530, Anju T Sudhakar wrote:
> On 6/28/19 9:04 AM, Qian Cai wrote:
> > 
> > > On Jun 27, 2019, at 11:12 PM, Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Qian Cai <[email-masked]> writes:
> > > > Read of debugfs imc_cmd file for a memory-less node will trigger a crash
> > > > below
> > > > on this power9 machine which has the following NUMA layout.
> > > 
> > > What type of machine is it?
> > 
> > description: PowerNV
> > product: 8335-GTH (ibm,witherspoon)
> > vendor: IBM
> > width: 64 bits
> > capabilities: smp powernv opal
> 
> 
> Hi Qian Cai,
> 
> Could you please try with this patch: 
> https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2019-June/192803.html
> 
> and see if the issue is resolved?

It works fine.

Just feel a bit silly that a node without CPU and memory is still online by
default during boot at the first place on powerpc, but that is probably a
different issue. For example,

# numactl -H
available: 6 nodes (0,8,252-255)
node 0 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52
53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63
node 0 size: 126801 MB
node 0 free: 123199 MB
node 8 cpus: 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85
86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108
109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127
node 8 size: 130811 MB
node 8 free: 128436 MB
node 252 cpus:
node 252 size: 0 MB
node 252 free: 0 MB
node 253 cpus:
node 253 size: 0 MB
node 253 free: 0 MB
node 254 cpus:
node 254 size: 0 MB
node 254 free: 0 MB
node 255 cpus:
node 255 size: 0 MB
node 255 free: 0 MB
node distances:
node   0   8  252  253  254  255 
  0:  10  40  80  80  80  80 
  8:  40  10  80  80  80  80 
 252:  80  80  10  80  80  80 
 253:  80  80  80  10  80  80 
 254:  80  80  80  80  10  80 
 255:  80  80  80  80  80  10 

# cat /sys/devices/system/node/online 
0,8,252-255