The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/init: remove the unnecessary special treatment for memory-less node
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-init-remove-the-unnecessary-special-treatment-for-memory-less-node.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/init: remove the unnecessary special treatment for memory-less node
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:11:28 +0800
Because memory-less node's ->node_present_pages and its zone's
->present_pages are all 0, the judgement before calling node_set_state()
to set N_MEMORY, N_HIGH_MEMORY, N_NORMAL_MEMORY for node is enough to skip
memory-less node. The 'continue;' statement inside for_each_node() loop
of free_area_init() is gilding the lily.
Here, remove the special handling to make memory-less node share the same
code flow as normal node.
And also rephrase the code comments above the 'continue' statement
and move them above above line 'if (pgdat->node_present_pages)'.
[bhe@xxxxxxxxxx: redo code comments, per Mike]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZhYJAVQRYJSTKZng@MiWiFi-R3L-srv
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326061134.1055295-3-bhe@xxxxxxxxxx
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 | 27 +++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/mm_init.c~mm-init-remove-the-unnecessary-special-treatment-for-memory-less-node
+++ a/mm/mm_init.c
@@ -1835,28 +1835,23 @@ void __init free_area_init(unsigned long
panic("Cannot allocate %zuB for node %d.\n",
sizeof(*pgdat), nid);
arch_refresh_nodedata(nid, pgdat);
- free_area_init_node(nid);
-
- /*
- * We do not want to confuse userspace by sysfs
- * files/directories for node without any memory
- * attached to it, so this node is not marked as
- * N_MEMORY and not marked online so that no sysfs
- * hierarchy will be created via register_one_node for
- * it. The pgdat will get fully initialized by
- * hotadd_init_pgdat() when memory is hotplugged into
- * this node.
- */
- continue;
}
pgdat = NODE_DATA(nid);
free_area_init_node(nid);
- /* Any memory on that node */
- if (pgdat->node_present_pages)
+ /*
+ * 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);
+ check_for_memory(pgdat);
+ }
}
calc_nr_kernel_pages();
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from bhe@xxxxxxxxxx are
documentation-kdump-clean-up-the-outdated-description.patch
kexec-fix-the-unexpected-kexec_dprintk-macro.patch
crash-add-prefix-for-crash-dumping-messages.patch
