The patch titled Subject: mm-init-remove-the-unnecessary-special-treatment-for-memory-less-node-v2 has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-init-remove-the-unnecessary-special-treatment-for-memory-less-node-v2.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-init-remove-the-unnecessary-special-treatment-for-memory-less-node-v2.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm-init-remove-the-unnecessary-special-treatment-for-memory-less-node-v2 Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 11:35:29 +0800 redo code comments, per Mike As Mike suggested, the old code comments above the 'continue' statement is still useful for easier understanding code and system behaviour. So rephrase and move them above line 'if (pgdat->node_present_pages)'. Thanks to Mike. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZhYJAVQRYJSTKZng@MiWiFi-R3L-srv Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> Cc: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/mm_init.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/mm_init.c~mm-init-remove-the-unnecessary-special-treatment-for-memory-less-node-v2 +++ a/mm/mm_init.c @@ -1840,7 +1840,14 @@ void __init free_area_init(unsigned long pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid); free_area_init_node(nid); - /* Any memory on that node */ + /* + * No sysfs hierarcy will be created via register_one_node() + *for memory-less node because here it's not marked as N_MEMORY + *and won't be set online later. The benefit is userspace + *program won't be confused by sysfs files/directories of + *memory-less node. The pgdat will get fully initialized by + *hotadd_init_pgdat() when memory is hotplugged into this node. + */ if (pgdat->node_present_pages) { node_set_state(nid, N_MEMORY); check_for_memory(pgdat); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from bhe@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-vmallocc-optimize-to-reduce-arguments-of-alloc_vmap_area.patch x86-remove-unneeded-memblock_find_dma_reserve.patch mm-mm_initc-remove-the-useless-dma_reserve.patch mm-mm_initc-add-new-function-calc_nr_all_pages.patch mm-mm_initc-remove-meaningless-calculation-of-zone-managed_pages-in-free_area_init_core.patch mm-mm_initc-remove-meaningless-calculation-of-zone-managed_pages-in-free_area_init_core-v3.patch mm-mm_initc-remove-unneeded-calc_memmap_size.patch mm-mm_initc-remove-arch_reserved_kernel_pages.patch mm-move-array-mem_section-init-code-out-of-memory_present.patch mm-init-remove-the-unnecessary-special-treatment-for-memory-less-node.patch mm-init-remove-the-unnecessary-special-treatment-for-memory-less-node-v2.patch mm-make-__absent_pages_in_range-as-static.patch mm-page_allocc-remove-unneeded-codes-in-numa-version-of-build_zonelists.patch mm-page_allocc-remove-unneeded-codes-in-numa-version-of-build_zonelists-v2.patch mm-mm_initc-remove-the-outdated-code-comment-above-deferred_grow_zone.patch mm-page_allocc-dont-show-protection-in-zones-lowmem_reserve-for-empty-zone.patch mm-page_allocc-change-the-array-length-to-migrate_pcptypes.patch arch-loongarch-clean-up-the-left-code-and-kconfig-item-related-to-crash_core.patch documentation-kdump-clean-up-the-outdated-description.patch kexec-fix-the-unexpected-kexec_dprintk-macro.patch