linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET tip] x86, NUMA: Unify 32 and 64bit NUMA initialization

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Date:	Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:17:34 +0200
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc:	mingo@...hat.com, rientjes@...gle.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET tip] x86, NUMA: Unify 32 and 64bit NUMA
 initialization

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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