[PATCH v4 5/5] mm: enable CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE on non-x86 arches

Balbir Singh bsingharora at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 00:17:31 AEDT 2016



On 07/10/16 05:36, Reza Arbab wrote:
> To support movable memory nodes (CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE), at least one of
> the following must be true:
> 
> 1. We're on x86. This arch has the capability to identify movable nodes
>    at boot by parsing the ACPI SRAT, if the movable_node option is used.
> 
> 2. Our config supports memory hotplug, which means that a movable node
>    can be created by hotplugging all of its memory into ZONE_MOVABLE.
> 
> Fix the Kconfig definition of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE, which currently
> recognizes (1), but not (2).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Reza Arbab <arbab at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  mm/Kconfig | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
> index be0ee11..5d0818f 100644
> --- a/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ config MOVABLE_NODE
>  	bool "Enable to assign a node which has only movable memory"
>  	depends on HAVE_MEMBLOCK
>  	depends on NO_BOOTMEM
> -	depends on X86_64
> +	depends on X86_64 || MEMORY_HOTPLUG
>  	depends on NUMA
>  	default n
>  	help
> 

Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com>


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