Re: [PATCHSET tip] x86, NUMA: Unify 32 and 64bit NUMAinitialization

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Sat Apr 30 2011 - 08:17:43 EST


Hello, Yinghai.

Nice catch, but,

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 01:14:14PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> [PATCH] x86, numa: Trim numa meminfo correctly
>
> During testing 32bit numa unifying code from tj, found one system with more than 64g
> fail to use numa.
>
> It turn out we do not trim that numa meminfo correctly with max_pfn.
> start could be bigger than 64g too.
>
> Also need to make the checking in seperated loop.

Why?

Isn't all that necessary the following?

---
arch/x86/mm/numa.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: work/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
===================================================================
--- work.orig/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
+++ work/arch/x86/mm/numa.c
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ int __init numa_cleanup_meminfo(struct n
bi->end = min(bi->end, high);

/* and there's no empty block */
- if (bi->start == bi->end) {
+ if (bi->start >= bi->end) {
numa_remove_memblk_from(i--, mi);
continue;
}
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