[RFC PATCH] drivers/base: use cpu->node_id for from_nid

[Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Hello Greg,

Is it possible to use "from_nid = cpu->node_id"?

Background:

I am currently working on (fake) NUMA support for s390. At startup, for
"deconfigured" CPUs, we don't know to which nodes the CPUs belong. Therefore
we always return node 0 for cpu_to_node().

For each present CPU the register_cpu() function is called which sets an
initial NUMA node via cpu_to_node(), which is then first node 0 for
"deconfigured" CPUs on s390.

After we "configure" a CPU we know to which node it belongs. Then when setting
a CPU online, the following is done in cpu_subsys_online():

     from_nid = cpu_to_node(cpuid); -> we return node x
     cpu_up(cpuid);
     to_nid = cpu_to_node(cpuid);   -> we return node x
     if (from_nid != to_nid)        -> x != x -> false
           change_cpu_under_node(cpu, from_nid, to_nid);

The result is that each CPU that was deconfigured at boot time stays in
node 0 because cpu_to_node() returns the same node before and after
setting the CPU online.

Using "cpu->node_id" for "from_nid" instead of calling cpu_to_node()
would help in our case.

Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/base/cpu.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/cpu.c b/drivers/base/cpu.c
index f160ea4..2dd889c 100644
--- a/drivers/base/cpu.c
+++ b/drivers/base/cpu.c
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ static int __ref cpu_subsys_online(struct device *dev)
 	int from_nid, to_nid;
 	int ret;
 
-	from_nid = cpu_to_node(cpuid);
+	from_nid = cpu->node_id;
 	if (from_nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
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