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| author | Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2016-12-12 16:42:55 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-12-12 18:55:07 -0800 |
| commit | 39fa104d5b87655c1c19d4b1990ea63d190c4817 (patch) | |
| tree | e127234b50e0eeb27b6b3aa1ef4be1c06e6cc8a7 /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | 4a3bac4e3ac212c31edd8b124a1a2c7e8c1767ed (diff) | |
| download | lwn-39fa104d5b87655c1c19d4b1990ea63d190c4817.tar.gz lwn-39fa104d5b87655c1c19d4b1990ea63d190c4817.zip | |
mm: remove x86-only restriction of movable_node
In commit c5320926e370 ("mem-hotplug: introduce movable_node boot
option"), the memblock allocation direction is changed to bottom-up and
then back to top-down like this:
1. memblock_set_bottom_up(true), called by cmdline_parse_movable_node().
2. memblock_set_bottom_up(false), called by x86's numa_init().
Even though (1) occurs in generic mm code, it is wrapped by #ifdef
CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE, which depends on X86_64.
This means that when we extend CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE to non-x86 arches,
things will be unbalanced. (1) will happen for them, but (2) will not.
This toggle was added in the first place because x86 has a delay between
adding memblocks and marking them as hotpluggable. Since other arches
do this marking either immediately or not at all, they do not require
the bottom-up toggle.
So, resolve things by moving (1) from cmdline_parse_movable_node() to
x86's setup_arch(), immediately after the movable_node parameter has
been parsed.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479160961-25840-3-git-send-email-arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 86a31dfc036e..26f0f92206d7 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -2406,7 +2406,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. that the amount of memory usable for all allocations is not too small. - movable_node [KNL,X86] Boot-time switch to enable the effects + movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to enable the effects of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details. MTD_Partition= [MTD] |