Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86, numa: always initialize all possible nodes

Michal Hocko
2019-06-26T13:54:50Z

On Thu 02-05-19 09:00:31, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 01-05-19 15:12:32, Barret Rhoden wrote:
> [...]
> > A more elegant solution may be to avoid registering with sysfs during early
> > boot, or something else entirely. But I figured I'd ask for help at this
> > point. =)
>
> Thanks for the report and an excellent analysis! This is really helpful.
> I will think about this some more but I am traveling this week. It seems
> really awkward to register a sysfs file for an empty range. That looks
> like a bug to me.

I am sorry, but I didn't get to this for a long time and I am still
busy. The patch has been dropped from the mm tree (thus linux-next). I
hope I can revisit this or somebody else will take over and finish this
work. This is much more trickier than I anticipated unfortunately.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs