powerpc/numa: Use ibm,max-associativity-domains to discover possible nodes
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: Michael Bringmann <mwb@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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