* Re: [PATCH] CPU/mem hotplug: enable CPUs online before local memory online
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@ 2010-05-07 20:50 ` Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2010-05-07 20:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: minskey guo; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-mm, Kleen, Andi
On Fri, 07 May 2010 13:50:52 +0800
minskey guo <chaohong_guo@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> This patch enables users to online CPUs even if the CPUs belongs to
> a numa node which doesn't have onlined local memory.
>
> The zonlists(pg_data_t.node_zonelists[]) of a numa node are created
> either in system boot/init period, or at the time of local memory
> online. For a numa node without onlined local memory, its zonelists
> are not initialized at present. As a result, any memory allocation
> operations executed by CPUs within this node will fail. In fact, an
> out-of-memory error is triggered when attempt to online CPUs before
> memory comes to online.
>
> This patch tries to create zonelists for such numa nodes, so that
> the memory allocation for this node can be fallback'ed to other
> nodes.
I had a horrible time extracting a usable patch from this email.
Please don't send two copies of a patch in a single email. One version
was space-stuffed and the other had text/plain mimetype. text/plain
attachents are OK. Plain old inlined text is preferred, but first
email yourself a test patch to check that it isn't getting mangled.
Make sure that the patch has lines longer than 100 chars to check for
wordwrapping.
I removed the unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mem_online_node);
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