http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/954421?page=last
Someone please help me out:
a. What is pgdat? From header - I read but cannot find the motivation
behind all these:
/*
* The pg_data_t structure is used in machines with CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
* (mostly NUMA machines?) to denote a higher-level memory zone than the
* zone denotes.
*
* On NUMA machines, each NUMA node would have a pg_data_t to describe
* it's memory layout.
*
* Memory statistics and page replacement data structures are maintained
on a
* per-zone basis.
*/
struct bootmem_data;
typedef struct pglist_data {
struct zone node_zones[MAX_NR_ZONES];
struct zonelist node_zonelists[MAX_ZONELISTS];
int nr_zones;
#ifdef CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP
struct page *node_mem_map;
#endif
struct bootmem_data *bdata;
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
/*
* Must be held any time you expect node_start_pfn,
node_present_pages
* or node_spanned_pages stay constant. Holding this will also
* guarantee that any pfn_valid() stays that way.
*
* Nests above zone->lock and zone->size_seqlock.
*/
spinlock_t node_size_lock;
#endif
unsigned long node_start_pfn;
unsigned long node_present_pages; /* total number of physical
pages */
unsigned long node_spanned_pages; /* total size of physical page
range, including holes */
int node_id;
wait_queue_head_t kswapd_wait;
struct task_struct *kswapd;
int kswapd_max_order;
} pg_data_t;
And why not u have to remove it? For what purposes? Why memory hotplug
needs this feature off?
And as today I can still can see the structure, so is the patch
reversed? If so, then the memory hotplug must have got a
replacement/substitution for this removal of pgdat - is that correct?
Thank you for the sharing.
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