Re: [PATCH x86/mm UPDATED] x86-64, NUMA: Fix distance tablehandling

[David Rientjes]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Yinghai Lu wrote:

> BTW: this conf get broken several times, and get fixed several times.
> 

Yes, it has been.  I think it's because there's an assumption that if the 
NUMA initialization fails that we automatically fake a single node 0 
covering all RAM.  The pxm for node 0 doesn't actually need to have any 
memory bound to it in the SRAT, so it is trivial with a custom BIOS to 
avoid onlining the node.  There doesn't appear to be any other problems 
related to this that we run into throughout the kernel, but it certainly 
needs to be fixed in this new emulation code even if those fake-to-phys 
mappings aren't currently used because it's a bad assumption.
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