Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86, numa: always initialize all possible nodes

[Michal Hocko]

On Thu 02-05-19 09:00:31, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 01-05-19 15:12:32, Barret Rhoden wrote:
> [...]
> > A more elegant solution may be to avoid registering with sysfs during early
> > boot, or something else entirely.  But I figured I'd ask for help at this
> > point.  =)
> 
> Thanks for the report and an excellent analysis! This is really helpful.
> I will think about this some more but I am traveling this week. It seems
> really awkward to register a sysfs file for an empty range. That looks
> like a bug to me.

I am sorry, but I didn't get to this for a long time and I am still
busy. The patch has been dropped from the mm tree (thus linux-next). I
hope I can revisit this or somebody else will take over and finish this
work. This is much more trickier than I anticipated unfortunately.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs