Re: [PATCH -next v2] mm/hotplug: fix a null-ptr-deref during NUMA boot

Michal Hocko
2019-06-21T13:55:12Z

On Fri 21-06-19 09:17:58, Qian Cai wrote:
> Sigh...
>
> I don't see any benefit to keep the broken commit,
>
> "x86, numa: always initialize all possible nodes"
>
> for so long in linux-next that just prevent x86 NUMA machines with any memory-
> less node from booting.
>
> Andrew, maybe it is time to drop this patch until Michal found some time to fix
> it properly.

Yes, please drop the patch for now, Andrew. I thought I could get to
this but time is just scarce.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs