xen: disable ACPI NUMA for PV guests
authorIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:54:03 +0000 (09:54 +0000)
committerKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:46:30 +0000 (10:46 -0500)
Xen does not currently expose PV-NUMA information to PV
guests. Therefore disable NUMA for the time being to prevent the
kernel picking up on an host-level NUMA information which it might
come across in the firmware.

[ Added comment - Jeremy ]

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c

index 44dcad43989dc983af51863fac28677e2cfdaaee..ed47d12fdecbca08a1f954f53cba0294836917ab 100644 (file)
@@ -1174,6 +1174,15 @@ asmlinkage void __init xen_start_kernel(void)
 
        xen_smp_init();
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI_NUMA
+       /*
+        * The pages we from Xen are not related to machine pages, so
+        * any NUMA information the kernel tries to get from ACPI will
+        * be meaningless.  Prevent it from trying.
+        */
+       acpi_numa = -1;
+#endif
+
        pgd = (pgd_t *)xen_start_info->pt_base;
 
        if (!xen_initial_domain())