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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 3/3] mm/page_alloc: Keep memoryless cpuless node 0 offline
Hi Andrew, Michal, David

* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [2020-08-06 21:32:11]:

> On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 18:28:23 +0530 Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > > The memory hotplug changes that somehow because you can hotremove numa
> > > nodes and therefore make the nodemask sparse but that is not a common
> > > case. I am not sure what would happen if a completely new node was added
> > > and its corresponding node was already used by the renumbered one
> > > though. It would likely conflate the two I am afraid. But I am not sure
> > > this is really possible with x86 and a lack of a bug report would
> > > suggest that nobody is doing that at least.
> > >
> >
> > JFYI,
> > Satheesh copied in this mailchain had opened a bug a year on crash with vcpu
> > hotplug on memoryless node.
> >
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202187
>
> So... do we merge this patch or not? Seems that the overall view is
> "risky but nobody is likely to do anything better any time soon"?

Can we decide on this one way or the other?

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Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju

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