Dan Williams <[email protected]> writes:

> The DEV_DAX_KMEM facility is a generic mechanism to allow device-dax
> instances, fronting performance-differentiated-memory like pmem, to be
> added to the System RAM pool. The NUMA node for that hot-added memory is
> derived from the device-dax instance's 'target_node' attribute.
>
> Recall that the 'target_node' is the ACPI-PXM-to-node translation for
> memory when it comes online whereas the 'numa_node' attribute of the
> device represents the closest online cpu node.
>
> Presently useful target_node information from the ACPI SRAT is discarded
> with the expectation that "Reserved" memory will never be onlined. Now,
> DEV_DAX_KMEM violates that assumption, there is a need to retain the
> translation. Move, rather than discard, numa_memblk data to a secondary
> array that memory_add_physaddr_to_target_node() may consider at a later
> point in time.
>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
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