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

[Christopher Lameter]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2020, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:

> 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.

Would it not be better and simpler to require that node 0 always has
memory (and processors)? A  mininum operational set?

We can dynamically number the nodes right? So just make sure that the
firmware properly creates memory on node 0?