linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86, numa: always initialize all possible nodes

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Message-ID: <20190502130031.GC29835@dhcp22.suse.cz>
Date:   Thu, 2 May 2019 09:00:31 -0400
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Barret Rhoden <brho@...gle.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@...il.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86, numa: always initialize all possible nodes

On Wed 01-05-19 15:12:32, Barret Rhoden wrote:
[...]
> A more elegant solution may be to avoid registering with sysfs during early
> boot, or something else entirely.  But I figured I'd ask for help at this
> point.  =)

Thanks for the report and an excellent analysis! This is really helpful.
I will think about this some more but I am traveling this week. It seems
really awkward to register a sysfs file for an empty range. That looks
like a bug to me.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs