> When hot adding memory and creating new node, the node is offline.
> And after calling node_set_online(), the node becomes online.
> 
> Oh, sorry. I misread your ptaches.
> 

Please ignore it...

Thanks,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu

On 
Yasuaki Ishimatsu <yasu.isim...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> When hot adding memory and creating new node, the node is offline.
> And after calling node_set_online(), the node becomes online.
> 
> Oh, sorry. I misread your ptaches.
> 
> Thanks,
> Yasuaki Ishimatsu
> 
> On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 09:33:10 +0800
> Xishi Qiu <qiuxi...@huawei.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 2015/4/18 4:05, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Your patches will fix your issue.
> > > But, if BIOS reports memory first at node hot add, pgdat can
> > > not be initialized.
> > > 
> > > Memory hot add flows are as follows:
> > > 
> > > add_memory
> > >   ...
> > >   -> hotadd_new_pgdat()
> > >   ...
> > >   -> node_set_online(nid)
> > > 
> > > When calling hotadd_new_pgdat() for a hot added node, the node is
> > > offline because node_set_online() is not called yet. So if applying
> > > your patches, the pgdat is not initialized in this case.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Yasuaki Ishimatsu
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi Yasuaki,
> > 
> > I'm not quite understand, when BIOS reports memory first, why pgdat
> > can not be initialized?
> > When hotadd a new node, hotadd_new_pgdat() will be called too, and
> > when hotadd memory to a existent node, it's no need to call 
> > hotadd_new_pgdat(),
> > right?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Xishi Qiu
> > 
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