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Subject[patch] fix hugepage unuseable issu on non-NUMA machine
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73d60b7f747176dbdff826c4127d22e1fd3f9f74 commit introduced a nodes_clear
function for NUMA machine. But seems the commit omits non-NUMA machine.
If find_zone_movable_pfns_for_nodes/early_calculate_totalpages has no
chance to run. nodes_clear will block HUPEPAGE using in my specjbb2005
testing.


So maybe we need to disable nodes_clear sometimes. With the following
patch. specjbb2005 recovered.


Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
---
diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 5d714f8..46ff861 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -4246,7 +4246,8 @@ void __init free_area_init_nodes(unsigned long *max_zone_pfn)
* find_zone_movable_pfns_for_nodes/early_calculate_totalpages init
* that node_mask, clear it at first
*/
- nodes_clear(node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY]);
+ if (required_kernelcore)
+ nodes_clear(node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY]);
/* Initialise every node */
mminit_verify_pageflags_layout();
setup_nr_node_ids();





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