Re: srat: harsh hot-pluggable memory check?

[Andi Kleen]

> This only mentions that the system supports hot-plugging, and IMHO if the
> user decides not to use CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG, it shouldn't be considered an error.
> Therefore would it be ok to drop the check? Or am I missing something?

The very strict checks were originally implemented because various early
BIOS had largely fictional SRATs, and trusting them blindly caused
boot failures or a lot of wasted memory for unnecessary hotplug zones. 
The wasted memory was mainly a problem with the old memory hotplug
implementation that pre-allocated memmaps, that's not a problem anymore.
However there may be still some other failure cases.

-Andi

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