[Trusty/Utopic][SRU][PATCH] powerpc/vphn: NUMA node code expects big-endian
Chris J Arges
chris.j.arges at canonical.com
Mon Dec 15 17:11:55 UTC 2014
From: Greg Kurz <gkurz at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1401150
The associativity domain numbers are obtained from the hypervisor through
registers and written into memory by the guest: the packed array passed to
vphn_unpack_associativity() is then native-endian, unlike what was assumed
in the following commit:
commit b08a2a12e44eaec5024b2b969f4fcb98169d1ca3
Author: Alistair Popple <alistair at popple.id.au>
Date: Wed Aug 7 02:01:44 2013 +1000
powerpc: Make NUMA device node code endian safe
This issue fills the topology with bogus data and makes it unusable. It may
lead to severe performance breakdowns.
We should ideally patch the vphn_unpack_associativity() function to do the
64-bit loads, but this requires some more brain storming.
In the meantime, let's go for a suboptimal and temporary bug fix: this patch
converts each 64-bit value of the packed array to big endian, as expected by
the current parsing code in vphn_unpack_associativity().
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
(cherry picked from commit 5c9fb1899400096c6818181c525897a31d57e488)
Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges at canonical.com>
---
arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
index c752d50..a115c56 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
@@ -1417,8 +1417,11 @@ static long hcall_vphn(unsigned long cpu, __be32 *associativity)
long retbuf[PLPAR_HCALL9_BUFSIZE] = {0};
u64 flags = 1;
int hwcpu = get_hard_smp_processor_id(cpu);
+ int i;
rc = plpar_hcall9(H_HOME_NODE_ASSOCIATIVITY, retbuf, flags, hwcpu);
+ for (i = 0; i < 6; i++)
+ retbuf[i] = cpu_to_be64(retbuf[i]);
vphn_unpack_associativity(retbuf, associativity);
return rc;
--
1.9.1
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