Re: [PATCH Bug fix] acpi, movablemem_map: node0 should always beunhotpluggable when using SRAT.

From: David Rientjes
Date: Wed Jan 30 2013 - 03:50:35 EST


On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Tang Chen wrote:

> When using movablemem_map=acpi, always set node0 as unhotpluggable, otherwise
> if all the memory is hotpluggable, the kernel will fail to boot.
>
> When using movablemem_map=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG], we don't stop users specifying
> node0 as hotpluggable, and ignore all the info in SRAT, so that this option
> can be used as a workaround of firmware bugs.
>

Could you elaborate on the failure you're seeing?

I've booted the kernel many times without memory on a node 0.
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