[PATCH] x86_64: Handle empty PXMs that only contain hotplug memory

The node setup code would try to allocate the node metadata in the node
itself, but that fails if there is no memory in there.

This can happen with memory hotplug when the hotplug area defines an so
far empty node.

Now use bootmem to try to allocate the mem_map in other nodes.

And if it fails don't panic, but just ignore the node.

To make this work I added a new __alloc_bootmem_nopanic function that
does what its name implies.

TBD should try to use nearby nodes here.  Currently we just use any.
It's hard to do it better because bootmem doesn't have proper fallback
lists yet.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/bootmem.h b/include/linux/bootmem.h
index de3eb8d8ae26..da2d107fe2cf 100644
--- a/include/linux/bootmem.h
+++ b/include/linux/bootmem.h
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ extern unsigned long __init bootmem_bootmap_pages (unsigned long);
 extern unsigned long __init init_bootmem (unsigned long addr, unsigned long memend);
 extern void __init free_bootmem (unsigned long addr, unsigned long size);
 extern void * __init __alloc_bootmem (unsigned long size, unsigned long align, unsigned long goal);
+extern void * __init __alloc_bootmem_nopanic (unsigned long size, unsigned long align, unsigned long goal);
 extern void * __init __alloc_bootmem_low(unsigned long size,
                                          unsigned long align,
                                          unsigned long goal);