[PATCH v5 3/3] mm/page_alloc: Keep memoryless cpuless node 0 offline

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Fri Aug 7 14:32:11 AEST 2020


On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 18:28:23 +0530 Srikar Dronamraju <srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> > The memory hotplug changes that somehow because you can hotremove numa
> > nodes and therefore make the nodemask sparse but that is not a common
> > case. I am not sure what would happen if a completely new node was added
> > and its corresponding node was already used by the renumbered one
> > though. It would likely conflate the two I am afraid. But I am not sure
> > this is really possible with x86 and a lack of a bug report would
> > suggest that nobody is doing that at least.
> > 
> 
> JFYI,
> Satheesh copied in this mailchain had opened a bug a year on crash with vcpu
> hotplug on memoryless node. 
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202187

So...  do we merge this patch or not?  Seems that the overall view is
"risky but nobody is likely to do anything better any time soon"?


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