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Date:	Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:49:23 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, apw@...dowen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Relax restrictions on setting CONFIG_NUMA on x86


* Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie> wrote:

> > I think this patch become easy to the porting of fakenuma.
> 
> It would be great if that was available, particularly if it could fake 
> memoryless nodes as that is a place where we've found a few 
> difficult-to-reproduce bugs.

yeah. Your previous patch (see below) had build problems - are those 
resolved meanwhile?

	Ingo

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Subject: x86: allow any x86 sub-architecture type to set CONFIG_NUMA
From: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>

While there are a limited number of x86 sub-architecture types that can
really support NUMA, there is nothing stopping other machines booting that
type of kernel. The fact that X86_GENERICARCH can set NUMA currently is an
indicator of that. This restriction only limits potential testing coverage.
This patch allows any sub-architecture to set CONFIG_NUMA if they wish.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---

 arch/x86/Kconfig       |    2 +-
 include/asm-x86/acpi.h |    1 +
 include/linux/acpi.h   |    1 -
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-x86.q/arch/x86/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- linux-x86.q.orig/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ linux-x86.q/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -816,7 +816,7 @@ config X86_PAE
 config NUMA
 	bool "Numa Memory Allocation and Scheduler Support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
 	depends on SMP
-	depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && (X86_NUMAQ || (X86_SUMMIT || X86_GENERICARCH) && ACPI) && EXPERIMENTAL)
+	depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && ACPI && EXPERIMENTAL)
 	default n if X86_PC
 	default y if (X86_NUMAQ || X86_SUMMIT)
 	help
Index: linux-x86.q/include/asm-x86/acpi.h
===================================================================
--- linux-x86.q.orig/include/asm-x86/acpi.h
+++ linux-x86.q/include/asm-x86/acpi.h
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ int __acpi_release_global_lock(unsigned 
 	    :"0"(n_hi), "1"(n_lo))
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
+#define NR_NODE_MEMBLKS MAX_NUMNODES
 extern int acpi_lapic;
 extern int acpi_ioapic;
 extern int acpi_noirq;
Index: linux-x86.q/include/linux/acpi.h
===================================================================
--- linux-x86.q.orig/include/linux/acpi.h
+++ linux-x86.q/include/linux/acpi.h
@@ -95,7 +95,6 @@ void acpi_table_print_madt_entry (struct
 
 /* the following four functions are architecture-dependent */
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PARSE_SRAT
-#define NR_NODE_MEMBLKS MAX_NUMNODES
 #define acpi_numa_slit_init(slit) do {} while (0)
 #define acpi_numa_processor_affinity_init(pa) do {} while (0)
 #define acpi_numa_memory_affinity_init(ma) do {} while (0)
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