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Date:   Tue, 26 Nov 2019 16:41:01 +0100
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
To:     Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
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Subject: Re: [RFC v1 00/19] Modify zonelist to nodelist v1
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On Tue 26-11-19 10:30:56, Qian Cai wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Nov 25, 2019, at 3:39 AM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > People do care about ZONE_MOVABLE and if there is a non-movable memory
> > sitting there then it is a bug. Please report that.
> 
> It is trivial to test yourself if you ever care. Just pass kernelcore=
> to as many NUMA machines you could find, an then test if ever possible
> to offline those memory.

I definitely do care if you can provide more details (ideally in a
separate email thread). I am using movable memory for memory hotplug
usecases and so far I do not remember any kernel/non-movable allocations
would make it in - modulo bugs when somebody might use __GFP_MOVABLE
when it is not appropriate.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs