On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Johannes Weiner wrote: > Is the assumption of this patch wrong? Does the specified node have > to be online for the fallback to work? Nodes that are offline have no control structures allocated and thus allocations will likely segfault when the address of the controls structure for the node is accessed. If we wanted to prevent that then every allocation would have to add a check to see if the nodes are online which would impact performance. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
