Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: avoid alloc memory on offline node

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 19-06-18 15:54:26, Punit Agrawal wrote:
[...]
> In terms of $SUBJECT, I wonder if it's worth taking the original patch
> as a temporary fix (it'll also be easier to backport) while we work on
> fixing these other issues and enabling memoryless nodes.

Well, x86 already does that but copying this antipatern is not really
nice. So it is good as a quick fix but it would be definitely much
better to have a robust fix. Who knows how many other places might hit
this. You certainly do not want to add a hack like this all over...
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs