linux-mm.kvack.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Lin Feng <linfeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yinghai@kernel.org,
	wency@cn.fujitsu.com, tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: numa: mm: kill double initialization for NODE_DATA
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 09:17:08 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130407011708.GA27751@hacker.(null)> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <515B8BD9.7060308@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 09:54:33AM +0800, Lin Feng wrote:
>Hi Wanpeng,
>
>On 04/02/2013 06:57 PM, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>>> >PS. For clarifying calling chains are showed as follows:
>>> >setup_arch()
>>> >  ...
>>> >  initmem_init()
>>> >    x86_numa_init()
>>> >      numa_init()
>>> >        numa_register_memblks()
>>> >          setup_node_data()
>>> >            NODE_DATA(nid)->node_id = nid;
>>> >            NODE_DATA(nid)->node_start_pfn = start >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>>> >            NODE_DATA(nid)->node_spanned_pages = (end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>>> >  ...
>>> >  x86_init.paging.pagetable_init()
>>> >  paging_init()
>>> >    ...
>>> >    sparse_init()
>>> >      sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node()
>>> >        sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_pgdat_section()
>>> >          ___alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic()
>>> >            __alloc_memory_core_early(pgdat->node_id,...)
>>> >    ...
>>> >    zone_sizes_init()
>>> >      free_area_init_nodes()
>>> >        free_area_init_node()
>>> >          pgdat->node_id = nid;
>>> >          pgdat->node_start_pfn = node_start_pfn;
>>> >          calculate_node_totalpages();
>>> >            pgdat->node_spanned_pages = totalpages;
>>> >
>> You miss the nodes which could become online at some point, but not
>> online currently. 
>

Hi Feng,

>Sorry, I'm not quite understanding what you said.
>
>I keep node_set_online(nid) there. In boot phase if a node is online now it wil be 
>reinitialized later by zone_sizes_init() else if a node is hotpluged after system is
>up it will also be initialized by hotadd_new_pgdat() which falls into calling 
>free_area_init_node().

I miss it.

>
>Besides this I'm not sure there are any other dependency besides what you worry about,
>while I tested this on a x86_64 numa system with hot-add nodes and the meminfo statics
>looks right before and after hot-add memory.

Fair enough. ;-)

Regards,
Wanpeng Li 

>
>thanks for your patient,
>linfeng

--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@kvack.org.  For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>

  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-07  1:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-02 10:14 [PATCH] x86: numa: mm: kill double initialization for NODE_DATA Lin Feng
2013-04-02 10:57 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-04-02 10:57 ` Wanpeng Li
2013-04-03  1:54   ` Lin Feng
2013-04-07  1:17     ` Wanpeng Li [this message]
2013-04-07  1:17     ` Wanpeng Li

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='20130407011708.GA27751@hacker.(null)' \
    --to=liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=hpa@zytor.com \
    --cc=linfeng@cn.fujitsu.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
    --cc=mingo@redhat.com \
    --cc=tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com \
    --cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
    --cc=wency@cn.fujitsu.com \
    --cc=x86@kernel.org \
    --cc=yinghai@kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).