On 27/09/16 10:14, Reza Arbab wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 07:12:31AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> In any case, if the memory hasn't been hotplug, this shouldn't be necessary >> as we shouldn't be considering it for allocation. > > Right. To be clear, the background info I put in the commit log refers to > x86, where the SRAT can describe movable nodes which exist at boot. They're > trying to avoid allocations from those nodes before they've been identified. > > On power, movable nodes can only exist via hotplug, so that scenario can't > happen. We can immediately go back to top-down allocation. That is the > missing call being added in the patch. >
Can we fix cmdline_parse_movable_node() to do the right thing? I suspect that code is heavily x86 only in the sense that no other arch needs it. Balbir Singh. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
