On Mon, 2 Oct 2017 11:38:07 +0100 Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com> wrote:

> > When I executed numactl -H(which read /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/cpumap
> > and display cpumask_of_node for each node), but I got different result on
> > X86 and arm64. For each numa node, the former only displayed online CPUs,
> > and the latter displayed all possible CPUs. Unfortunately, both Linux
> > documentation and numactl manual have not described it clear.
> > 
> > I sent a mail to ask for help, and Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org> replied
> > that he preferred to print online cpus because it doesn't really make much
> > sense to bind anything on offline nodes.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leiz...@huawei.com>
> > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/base/node.c | 12 ++++++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> Which tree is this intended to go through? I'm happy to take it via arm64,
> but I don't want to tread on anybody's toes in linux-next and it looks like
> there are already queued changes to this file via Andrew's tree.

I grabbed it.  I suppose there's some small risk of userspace breakage
so I suggest it be a 4.15-rc1 thing?

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