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SubjectRe: early exception error
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:59:08PM -0800, david@lang.hm wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> >>on the picture you sent me i noticed the message
> >>"Your memory is not aligned you need to rebuild your
> >>kernel with bigger NODEMAP SIZE shift=20" and then
> >>srat code complains about "No NUMA code hash function found"
> >>which looks a bit scary. Btw, could you post this picture
> >>on some public resource so NUMA people could check it?
> >
> >This case used to be handled cleanly (NUMA disabled), but perhaps
> >that has regressed. But still it sounds like something is going wrong,
> >unless his machine really has a very weird memory map.
>
> it shouldn't, it was one of the high-volume servers 4-5 years ago and only
> has 4G of ram in it

From looking at the screenshot Cyrill sent you seem to have a funny
SRAT with overlapping areas that is rejected in the end. I suspect the
fallback code doesn't handle this properly.

Does it work when you boot with numa=noacpi ?

-Andi



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