[PATCH v2 1/2] Documentation, dt, numa: Add note to empty NUMA node

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Mon Oct 4 11:13:38 PDT 2021


On Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:41:18 +0800, Gavin Shan wrote:
> The empty memory nodes, where no memory resides in, are allowed.
> The NUMA node IDs are still valid and parsed, but memory may be
> added to them through hotplug afterwards. Currently, QEMU fails
> to boot when multiple empty memory nodes are specified. It's
> caused by device-tree population failure and duplicated memory
> node names.
> 
> The device-tree specification doesn't provide how empty NUMA
> nodes are handled. Besides, I finds difficulty to get where
> this case is documented. So lets add a section for empty memory
> nodes to cover it in NUMA binding document.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan at redhat.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/numa.txt | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

Applied, thanks!



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