On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/gfp.h b/include/linux/gfp.h
> > index 531c72d..104a027 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/gfp.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/gfp.h
> > @@ -321,8 +321,12 @@ static inline struct page *alloc_pages_node(int nid, 
> > gfp_t gfp_mask,
> >                                             unsigned int order)
> >  {
> >     /* Unknown node is current (or closest) node */
> > -   if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE)
> > +   if (nid == NUMA_NO_NODE) {
> >             nid = numa_mem_id();
> > +   } else if (!node_online(nid)) {
> > +           VM_WARN_ON(!node_online(nid));
> > +           nid = numa_mem_id();
> > +   }
> 
> I would think you would only want this for debugging purposes. The
> overwhelming majority of hardware out there has no memory
> onlining/offlining capability after all and this adds the overhead to each
> call to alloc_pages_node.
> 
> Make this dependo n CONFIG_VM_DEBUG or some such thing?
> 

Yeah, the suggestion was for VM_WARN_ON() in the conditional, but the 
placement has changed somewhat because of the new __alloc_pages_node().  I 
think

        else if (VM_WARN_ON(!node_online(nid)))
                nid = numa_mem_id();

should be fine since it only triggers for CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.
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