On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 09:17:44AM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote: > 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. Okay, that makes sense, thank you. Andrew, can you please drop this patch? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>