On 2015/4/18 4:05, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote: > > Your patches will fix your issue. > But, if BIOS reports memory first at node hot add, pgdat can > not be initialized. > > Memory hot add flows are as follows: > > add_memory > ... > -> hotadd_new_pgdat() > ... > -> node_set_online(nid) > > When calling hotadd_new_pgdat() for a hot added node, the node is > offline because node_set_online() is not called yet. So if applying > your patches, the pgdat is not initialized in this case. > > Thanks, > Yasuaki Ishimatsu > Hi Yasuaki, I'm not quite understand, when BIOS reports memory first, why pgdat can not be initialized? When hotadd a new node, hotadd_new_pgdat() will be called too, and when hotadd memory to a existent node, it's no need to call hotadd_new_pgdat(), right? Thanks, Xishi Qiu -- 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>