Subject: [PATCH v2] powerpc/numa: add ability to disable and debug topology updates

From: Nishanth Aravamudan <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 16:42:15 -0700

We have hit a few customer issues with the topology update code (VPHN
and PRRN). It would be nice to be able to debug the notifications coming
from the hypervisor in both cases to the LPAR, as well as to disable
responding to the notifications at boot-time, to narrow down the source
of the problems. Add a basic level of such functionality, similar to the
numa= command-line parameter. We already have a toggle in
/proc/powerpc/topology_updates that allows run-time enabling/disabling,
so the updates can be started at run-time if desired. But the bugs we've
run into have occured during boot or very shortly after coming to login,
and have resulted in a broken NUMA topology.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <[email-masked]>

---
v1 -> v2:
 Updated commit message to answer some of mpe's reviews.
 Switched to pr_fmt based debugging, which removes the need for the
   debug flag.
 Be a little less verbose in the debugging, as it was duplicating
   information.

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index d9a452e8fb9b..35a46b8240ad 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3388,6 +3388,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			e.g. base its process migration decisions on it.
 			Default is on.
 
+	topology_updates= [KNL, PPC, NUMA]
+			Format: {off}
+			Specify if the kernel should ignore (off)
+			topology updates sent by the hypervisor to this
+			LPAR.
+
 	tp720=		[HW,PS2]
 
 	tpm_suspend_pcr=[HW,TPM]
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
index e28c21ba862d..ad240a41d3e4 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ static char *cmdline __initdata;
 
 static int numa_debug;
 #define dbg(args...) if (numa_debug) { printk(KERN_INFO args); }
+#define pr_fmt(fmt) "numa: " fmt
 
 int numa_cpu_lookup_table[NR_CPUS];
 cpumask_var_t node_to_cpumask_map[MAX_NUMNODES];
@@ -1160,6 +1161,22 @@ static int __init early_numa(char *p)
 }
 early_param("numa", early_numa);
 
+static int topology_updates_enabled = 1;
+
+static int __init early_topology_updates(char *p)
+{
+	if (!p)
+		return 0;
+
+	if (strstr(p, "off")) {
+		pr_info("Disabling topology updates\n");
+		topology_updates_enabled = 0;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("topology_updates", early_topology_updates);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
 /*
  * Find the node associated with a hot added memory section for
@@ -1546,6 +1563,9 @@ int arch_update_cpu_topology(void)
 	struct device *dev;
 	int weight, new_nid, i = 0;
 
+	if (!prrn_enabled && !vphn_enabled)
+		return 0;
+
 	weight = cpumask_weight(&cpu_associativity_changes_mask);
 	if (!weight)
 		return 0;
@@ -1599,6 +1619,15 @@ int arch_update_cpu_topology(void)
 		cpu = cpu_last_thread_sibling(cpu);
 	}
 
+	pr_debug("Topology update for the following CPUs:\n");
+	if (cpumask_weight(&updated_cpus)) {
+		for (ud = &updates[0]; ud; ud = ud->next) {
+			pr_debug("cpu %d moving from node %d "
+					  "to %d\n", ud->cpu,
+					  ud->old_nid, ud->new_nid);
+		}
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * In cases where we have nothing to update (because the updates list
 	 * is too short or because the new topology is same as the old one),
@@ -1807,7 +1836,9 @@ static const struct file_operations topology_ops = {
 
 static int topology_update_init(void)
 {
-	start_topology_update();
+	/* Do not poll for changes if disabled at boot */
+	if (topology_updates_enabled)
+		start_topology_update();
 	if (!proc_create("powerpc/topology_updates", 0644, NULL, &topology_ops))
 		return -ENOMEM;