On Sun, 11 Oct 2020 12:11:40 +0800 Xianting Tian wrote: > In architecture like powerpc, we can have cpus without any local memory > attached to it. In such cases the node does not have real memory. > > Use local_memory_node(), which is guaranteed to have memory. > local_memory_node is a noop in other architectures that does not support > memoryless nodes. > > Signed-off-by: Xianting Tian <tian.xiant...@h3c.com> > --- > net/core/dev.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c > index 266073e30..dcb4533ef 100644 > --- a/net/core/dev.c > +++ b/net/core/dev.c > @@ -2590,7 +2590,7 @@ static struct xps_map *expand_xps_map(struct xps_map > *map, int attr_index, > new_map = kzalloc(XPS_MAP_SIZE(alloc_len), GFP_KERNEL); > else > new_map = kzalloc_node(XPS_MAP_SIZE(alloc_len), GFP_KERNEL, > - cpu_to_node(attr_index)); > + > local_memory_node(cpu_to_node(attr_index))); > if (!new_map) > return NULL; >
Are we going to patch all kmalloc_node() callers now to apply local_memory_node()? Can't the allocator take care of this?
