The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm-init-remove-the-unnecessary-special-treatment-for-memory-less-node-v2
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-init-remove-the-unnecessary-special-treatment-for-memory-less-node-v2.patch
This patch was dropped because it was folded into mm-init-remove-the-unnecessary-special-treatment-for-memory-less-node.patch
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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-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-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
documentation-kdump-clean-up-the-outdated-description.patch
kexec-fix-the-unexpected-kexec_dprintk-macro.patch
crash-add-prefix-for-crash-dumping-messages.patch
