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

[Srikar Dronamraju]

Currently Linux kernel with CONFIG_NUMA on a system with multiple
possible nodes, marks node 0 as online at boot.  However in practice,
there are systems which have node 0 as memoryless and cpuless.

This can cause numa_balancing to be enabled on systems with only one node
with memory and CPUs. The existence of this dummy node which is cpuless and
memoryless node can confuse users/scripts looking at output of lscpu /
numactl.

Lets stop assuming that Node 0 is always online.

v5.6-rc4
 available: 2 nodes (0,2)
 node 0 cpus:
 node 0 size: 0 MB
 node 0 free: 0 MB
 node 2 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
 node 2 size: 32625 MB
 node 2 free: 31490 MB
 node distances:
 node   0   2
   0:  10  20
   2:  20  10

proc and sys files
------------------
 /sys/devices/system/node/online:            0,2
 /proc/sys/kernel/numa_balancing:            1
 /sys/devices/system/node/has_cpu:           2
 /sys/devices/system/node/has_memory:        2
 /sys/devices/system/node/has_normal_memory: 2
 /sys/devices/system/node/possible:          0-31

v5.6-rc4 + patch
------------------
 available: 1 nodes (2)
 node 2 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
 node 2 size: 32625 MB
 node 2 free: 31487 MB
 node distances:
 node   2
   2:  10

proc and sys files
------------------
/sys/devices/system/node/online:            2
/proc/sys/kernel/numa_balancing:            0
/sys/devices/system/node/has_cpu:           2
/sys/devices/system/node/has_memory:        2
/sys/devices/system/node/has_normal_memory: 2
/sys/devices/system/node/possible:          0-31

Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-mm at kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman at suse.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka at suse.cz>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill at shutemov.name>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl at linux.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 mm/page_alloc.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 3c4eb75..68e635f4 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -116,8 +116,10 @@ struct pcpu_drain {
  */
 nodemask_t node_states[NR_NODE_STATES] __read_mostly = {
 	[N_POSSIBLE] = NODE_MASK_ALL,
+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
+	[N_ONLINE] = NODE_MASK_NONE,
+#else
 	[N_ONLINE] = { { [0] = 1UL } },
-#ifndef CONFIG_NUMA
 	[N_NORMAL_MEMORY] = { { [0] = 1UL } },
 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
 	[N_HIGH_MEMORY] = { { [0] = 1UL } },
-- 
1.8.3.1