Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Dec 2011 08:11:09 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] NUMA x86: add constraints check for nid parameters |
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* Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> writes: > > > This patch adds constraints checks for numa_set_distance() > > function. It emits warning when pxms are used uninitialized > > when parsing the SRAT. > > Can you expand on the motivation for this please? > Is this to catch buggy code or to catch buggy SRATs?
Both.
> If the later are they actually out there?
Not that i know of - they would likely not boot Linux very well today.
Thanks,
Ingo
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