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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2015 18:56:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <yasu.isimatu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 V2] memory-hotplug: fix BUG_ON in move_freepages()
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When hot adding memory and creating new node, the node is offline.
And after calling node_set_online(), the node becomes online.

Oh, sorry. I misread your ptaches.

Thanks,
Yasuaki Ishimatsu

On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 09:33:10 +0800
Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> wrote:

> On 2015/4/18 4:05, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Your patches will fix your issue.
> > But, if BIOS reports memory first at node hot add, pgdat can
> > not be initialized.
> > 
> > Memory hot add flows are as follows:
> > 
> > add_memory
> >   ...
> >   -> hotadd_new_pgdat()
> >   ...
> >   -> node_set_online(nid)
> > 
> > When calling hotadd_new_pgdat() for a hot added node, the node is
> > offline because node_set_online() is not called yet. So if applying
> > your patches, the pgdat is not initialized in this case.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Yasuaki Ishimatsu
> > 
> 
> Hi Yasuaki,
> 
> I'm not quite understand, when BIOS reports memory first, why pgdat
> can not be initialized?
> When hotadd a new node, hotadd_new_pgdat() will be called too, and
> when hotadd memory to a existent node, it's no need to call hotadd_new_pgdat(),
> right?
> 
> Thanks,
> Xishi Qiu
> 

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