Re: [PATCH 0/6] mm: make movable onlining suck less

[Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>]

On Tue 04-04-17 09:23:29, Michal Hocko wrote:
> [Let's add Gary who as introduced this code c04fc586c1a48]

OK, so Gary's email doesn't exist anymore. Does anybody can comment on
this? I suspect this code is just-in-case... Mel?
 
> On Mon 03-04-17 15:42:13, Reza Arbab wrote:
[...]
> > Almost there. I'm seeing the memory in the correct node now, but the
> > /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY links are not being created.
> > 
> > I think it's tripping up here, in register_mem_sect_under_node():
> > 
> > 		page_nid = get_nid_for_pfn(pfn);
> > 		if (page_nid < 0)
> > 			continue;
> 
> Huh, this code is confusing. How can we have a memblock spanning more
> nodes? If not then the loop over all sections in the memblock seem
> pointless as well.  Also why do we require page_initialized() in
> get_nid_for_pfn? The changelog doesn't explain that and there are no
> comments that would help either.
> 
> Gary, could you clarify this please?
> -- 
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs

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Michal Hocko
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