On Thu, 5 Mar 2015, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
index 0257a7d659ef..24de29b3651b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
@@ -958,9 +958,17 @@ void __init initmem_init(void)
memblock_dump_all();
+ /*
+ * zero out the possible nodes after we parse the device-tree,
+ * so that we lower the maximum NUMA node ID to what is actually
+ * present.
+ */
+ nodes_clear(node_possible_map);
+
for_each_online_node(nid) {
unsigned long start_pfn, end_pfn;
+ node_set(nid, node_possible_map);
get_pfn_range_for_nid(nid, &start_pfn, &end_pfn);
setup_node_data(nid, start_pfn, end_pfn);
sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions(nid);
This seems a bit strange, node_possible_map is supposed to be a superset
of node_online_map and this loop is iterating over node_online_map to set
nodes in node_possible_map.