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Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] powerpc/mm: restore top-down allocation when using movable_node

From Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] powerpc/mm: restore top-down allocation when using movable_node
Date 2016-09-27 02:20 +0200
Message-ID <slOhP-2ju-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 07:12:31AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>In any case, if the memory hasn't been hotplug, this shouldn't be 
>necessary as we shouldn't be considering it for allocation.

Right. To be clear, the background info I put in the commit log refers 
to x86, where the SRAT can describe movable nodes which exist at boot.  
They're trying to avoid allocations from those nodes before they've been 
identified.

On power, movable nodes can only exist via hotplug, so that scenario 
can't happen. We can immediately go back to top-down allocation. That is 
the missing call being added in the patch.

-- 
Reza Arbab

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[PATCH v3 0/5] powerpc/mm: movable hotplug memory nodes Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-09-25 20:40 +0200
  [PATCH v3 2/5] drivers/of: do not add memory for unavailable nodes Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-09-25 20:40 +0200
  [PATCH v3 4/5] powerpc/mm: restore top-down allocation when using movable_node Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-09-25 20:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] powerpc/mm: restore top-down allocation when using movable_node "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-09-26 17:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] powerpc/mm: restore top-down allocation when  using movable_node Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-09-26 22:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] powerpc/mm: restore top-down allocation when  using movable_node Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> - 2016-09-26 23:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] powerpc/mm: restore top-down allocation when  using movable_node Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-09-27 02:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] powerpc/mm: restore top-down allocation when using  movable_node Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 02:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] powerpc/mm: restore top-down allocation when  using movable_node Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-10-04 22:30 +0200
  [PATCH v3 3/5] powerpc/mm: allow memory hotplug into a memoryless node Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-09-25 20:40 +0200
  [PATCH v3 5/5] mm: enable CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE on powerpc Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-09-25 20:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] mm: enable CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE on powerpc "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-09-26 17:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] mm: enable CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE on powerpc Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> - 2016-09-26 23:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] mm: enable CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE on powerpc Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-09-27 02:20 +0200
  [PATCH v3 1/5] drivers/of: introduce of_fdt_is_available() Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-09-25 20:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] drivers/of: introduce of_fdt_is_available() Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> - 2016-10-03 17:30 +0200

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