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Date:	Wed, 8 Nov 2006 11:40:38 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, hch@....de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@....sgi.com, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] add dev_to_node()

Hi, I have a question.

On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 23:56:29 +0100
Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/device.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/device.h	2006-10-29 16:02:38.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/device.h	2006-11-02 12:47:17.000000000 +0100
> @@ -347,6 +347,9 @@
>  					   BIOS data),reserved for device core*/
>  	struct dev_pm_info	power;
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> +	int		numa_node;	/* NUMA node this device is close to */
> +#endif

> +	dev->dev.numa_node = pcibus_to_node(bus);

Does this "node" is guaranteed to be online ?

if node is not online, NODE_DATA(node) is NULL or not initialized.
Then, alloc_pages_node() at el. will panic.

I wonder there are no code for creating NODE_DATA() for device-only-node.

-Kame

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