linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2 v3] kdump: add the vmcoreinfo documentation

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Message-ID: <20181217121255.GC12165@zn.tnic>
Date:   Mon, 17 Dec 2018 13:12:55 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
        tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, x86@...nel.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, bhe@...hat.com, dyoung@...hat.com,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v3] kdump: add the vmcoreinfo documentation

On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 09:16:16PM +0800, Lianbo Jiang wrote:

This...

> +node_online_map
> +===============
> +It is a macro definition, actually it is an array node_states[N_ONLINE],
> +and it represents the set of online node in a system, one bit position
> +per node number.
> +
> +This is used to keep track of which nodes are in the system and online.

... and this...

> +nodemask_t
> +==========
> +The size of a 'nodemask_t' type. This value is used to compute the number
> +of online nodes.

sound redundant too?

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    Boris.

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