[PATCH 14/17] mm: introduce numa_emulation

[Zi Yan]

On 16 Jul 2024, at 7:13, Mike Rapoport wrote:

> From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt at kernel.org>
>
> Move numa_emulation codfrom arch/x86 to mm/numa_emulation.c
>
> This code will be later reused by arch_numa.
>
> No functional changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt at kernel.org>
> ---
>  arch/x86/Kconfig             |  8 --------
>  arch/x86/include/asm/numa.h  | 12 ------------
>  arch/x86/mm/Makefile         |  1 -
>  arch/x86/mm/numa_internal.h  | 11 -----------
>  include/linux/numa_memblks.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>  mm/Kconfig                   |  8 ++++++++
>  mm/Makefile                  |  1 +
>  mm/numa_emulation.c          |  4 +---
>  8 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

After this code move, the document of numa=fake= should be moved from
Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst to
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
too.

Something like:

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index bc55fb55cd26..ce3659289b5e 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4158,6 +4158,18 @@
                        Disable NUMA, Only set up a single NUMA node
                        spanning all memory.

+       numa=fake=<size>[MG]
+                       If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with nodes of
+                       size interleaved over physical nodes.
+
+       numa=fake=<N>
+                       If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N fake nodes
+                       interleaved over physical nodes.
+
+       numa=fake=<N>U
+                       If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will divide each
+                       physical node into N emulated nodes.
+
        numa_balancing= [KNL,ARM64,PPC,RISCV,S390,X86] Enable or disable automatic
                        NUMA balancing.
                        Allowed values are enable and disable
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst b/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
index 137432d34109..98d4805f0823 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst
@@ -170,18 +170,6 @@ NUMA
     Don't parse the HMAT table for NUMA setup, or soft-reserved memory
     partitioning.

-  numa=fake=<size>[MG]
-    If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with nodes of
-    size interleaved over physical nodes.
-
-  numa=fake=<N>
-    If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N fake nodes
-    interleaved over physical nodes.
-
-  numa=fake=<N>U
-    If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will divide each
-    physical node into N emulated nodes.
-
 ACPI
 ====

Best Regards,
Yan, Zi
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