[PATCH v2 0/5] mm: Enable CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES by default for NUMA

[Hoan Tran OS]

In NUMA layout which nodes have memory ranges that span across other nodes,
the mm driver can detect the memory node id incorrectly.

For example, with layout below
Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx 0000 xxxx
Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 xxxx 1111

Note:
 - Memory from low to high
 - 0/1: Node id
 - x: Invalid memory of a node

When mm probes the memory map, without CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
config, mm only checks the memory validity but not the node id.
Because of that, Node 1 also detects the memory from node 0 as below
when it scans from the start address to the end address of node 1.

Node 0 address: 0000 xxxx xxxx xxxx
Node 1 address: xxxx 1111 1111 1111

This layout could occur on any architecture. This patch enables
CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES by default for NUMA to fix this issue.

V2:
 * Revise the patch description

Hoan Tran (5):
  mm: Enable CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES by default for NUMA
  powerpc: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
  x86: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
  sparc: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
  s390: Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES

 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 9 ---------
 arch/s390/Kconfig    | 8 --------
 arch/sparc/Kconfig   | 9 ---------
 arch/x86/Kconfig     | 9 ---------
 mm/page_alloc.c      | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 36 deletions(-)

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