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When I execute numactl -H (which reads /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/cpumap and displays cpumask_of_node for each node), I get different result on X86 and arm64. For each numa node, the former only displayed online CPUs, and the latter displayed all possible CPUs. Unfortunately, both Linux documentation and numactl manual have not described it clear. I sent a mail to ask for help, and Michal Hocko replied that he preferred to print online cpus because it doesn't really make much sense to bind anything on offline nodes. Will said: "I suspect the vast majority (if not all) code that reads this file was developed for x86, so having the same behaviour for arm64 sounds like something we should do ASAP before people try to special case with things like #ifdef __aarch64__. I'd rather have this in 4.14 if possible." Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1506678805-15392-2-git-send-email-thunder.leizhen@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Tianhong Ding <dingtianhong@huawei.com> Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> Cc: Libin <huawei.libin@huawei.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.