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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>2017-07-06 15:41:02 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-06 16:24:35 -0700
commitf70029bbaacbfa8f082d2b4988717cba4e269f17 (patch)
treeda4860c5227a317637194b6ca9ee4c6becfddb53 /Documentation
parent57c0a17238e22395428248c53f8e390c051c88b8 (diff)
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mm, memory_hotplug: drop CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE
Commit 20b2f52b73fe ("numa: add CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE for movable-dedicated node") has introduced CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE without a good explanation on why it is actually useful. It makes a lot of sense to make movable node semantic opt in but we already have that because the feature has to be explicitly enabled on the kernel command line. A config option on top only makes the configuration space larger without a good reason. It also adds an additional ifdefery that pollutes the code. Just drop the config option and make it de-facto always enabled. This shouldn't introduce any change to the semantic. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170529114141.536-3-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <yasu.isimatu@gmail.com> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Kani Toshimitsu <toshi.kani@hpe.com> Cc: Chen Yucong <slaoub@gmail.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com> Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 34ae9663aefd..dd7abbea8188 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2303,8 +2303,11 @@
that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
is not too small.
- movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to enable the effects
- of CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE=y. See mm/Kconfig for details.
+ movable_node [KNL] Boot-time switch to make hotplugable memory
+ NUMA nodes to be movable. This means that the memory
+ of such nodes will be usable only for movable
+ allocations which rules out almost all kernel
+ allocations. Use with caution!
MTD_Partition= [MTD]
Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>