I see why the problem exists only on SN. SN uses a different hardware
mechanism to purge TLB entries across nodes.
It looks like there is a bug in the SN TLB flushing code. During context switch,
kernel threads inherit the mm of the task that was previously running on the
cpu. This confuses the code in sn2_global_tlb_purge().
The result is a missed TLB purge for the task that owns the "borrowed" mm.
(I hit the problem running heavy stress where kswapd was purging code pages of
a user task that woke kswapd. The user task took a SIGILL fault trying to
execute code in the page that had been ripped out from underneath it).
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The patch that added support for a new platform chipset (shub2) broke
PTC deadlock recovery on older versions of the chipset. (PTCs are the
SN platform-specific method for doing a global TLB purge). This
patch fixes deadlock recovery so that it works on both the old & new
chipsets.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The kernel's use of the for_each_*cpu(i) macros has allowed for sparse CPU
numbering. When I hacked the kernel to test sparse cpu_present_map[] and
cpu_possible_map[] cpumasks, I discovered one remaining spot, in
sn_hwperf_ioctl() during sn initialization, that needs to be fixed.
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Roe <roe@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Patch to prevent sn2_ptc_init code from attempting to load on non-sn2 systems
when sn2_smp.c is built-in to generic kernel.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
flush_tlb_all() can be a scaling issue on large SGI Altix systems
since it uses the global call_lock and always executes on all cpus.
When a process enters flush_tlb_range() to purge TLBs for another
process, it is possible to avoid flush_tlb_all() and instead allow
sn2_global_tlb_purge() to purge TLBs only where necessary.
This patch modifies flush_tlb_range() so that this case can be handled
by platform TLB purge functions and updates ia64_global_tlb_purge()
accordingly. sn2_global_tlb_purge() now calculates the region register
value from the mm argument introduced with this patch.
Signed-off-by: Dean Roe <roe@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Some of the SN code & #defines related to compact nodes & IO discovery
have gotten stale over the years. This patch attempts to clean them up.
Some of the various SN MAX_xxx #defines were also unclear & misused.
The primary changes are:
- use MAX_NUMNODES. This is the generic linux #define for the number
of nodes that are known to the generic kernel. Arrays & loops
for constructs that are 1:1 with linux-defined nodes should
use the linux #define - not an SN equivalent.
- use MAX_COMPACT_NODES for MAX_NUMNODES + NUM_TIOS. This is the
number of nodes in the SSI system. Compact nodes are a hack to
get around the IA64 architectural limit of 256 nodes. Large SGI
systems have more than 256 nodes. When we upgrade to ACPI3.0,
I _hope_ that all nodes will be real nodes that are known to
the generic kernel. That will allow us to delete the notion
of "compact nodes".
- add MAX_NUMALINK_NODES for the total number of nodes that
are in the numalink domain - all partitions.
- simplified (understandable) scan_for_ionodes()
- small amount of cleanup related to cnodes
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Clean up of SGI SN partitioning related code.
The SN_SAL_GET_SN_INFO SAL call returns the partition ID, making
the SN_SAL_SYSCTL_PARTITION_GET SAL call redundant. Remove sn_partid
and use sn_partition_id.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com)
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Add a new exported function for determining the nearest node
with CPUs for I/O nodes and fix a bug where the hwperf dynamic
misc device was being registered before misc_init().
Signed-off-by: Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Bugfix to export PCI topology information in /proc/sgi_sn/sn_topology.
Signed-off-by: Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Removed IA64 architecture specific users of asm/segment.h
The removal of asm-ia64/segment.h itself can wait until all
of the kernel source has been purged of references.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Shub2 provides a much improved mechanism for issuing internode
TLB purges. Add code to support the newer mechanism. There is also
some debug code (disabled) that is useful for testing.
Collect statistics on the number, type & duration of TLB purges.
This data will be useful for making future improvements in the algorithms.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Disable some shub1-specific code when running on systems with shub2.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch is a sparse compile cleanup of shub_mmr.h using both the defconfig
and the sn2_defconfig config files.
The issue with this file was the missing usage of __IA64_UL_CONST wrapper.
This wrapper is defined in include/asm-ia64/types.h and wraps a long
constant definition with UL or with nothing depending on its usage in the
kernel. The missing wrapper caused many sparse compile errors like
warning: constant 0x0x0000000010000380 so big it is long
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch against ia64-test-2.6.12 is needed for forthcoming
Altix chipsets. It renames geoid_any_t to geoid_common_t and
splits the 8bit 'slab' field into two 4bit fields for 'slab'
and 'slot'. Similar changes in the Altix SAL will retain backward
compatibility for old kernels.
Signed-off-by: Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
please accept this patch to the Altix SN platform topology export
interface to support new chipsets and to export PCI topology.
This follows on top of Jack Steiner's patch dated March 1st
("New chipset support for SN platform").
Signed-off-by: Mark Goodwin <markgw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Jack Steiner