* Minoru Usui <usui@mxm.nes.nec.co.jp> wrote:

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> I found a small bug of NUMA emulation code for x86_64. 
> (CONFIG_NUMA_EMU) If machine is non-NUMA, find_node_by_addr() should 
> return NUMA_NO_NODE, but current implementation code returns existent 
> maximum NUMA node number + 1. This is not existent NUMA node number.
>
> However, this behaviour does not affect NUMA emulation fortunately, 
> because acpi_fake_nodes() that is caller of find_node_by_addr() gets 
> pxm (proximity domain) by node_to_pxm() from non-existent NUMA node 
> number that was returned by find_node_by_addr(). node_to_pxm() returns 
> PXM_INVAL that means illegal or non-existent NUMA node number.

thanks, i have applied your fix to x86.git.

It seems this does not need to be backported to v2.6.24.1 because 
node_to_pxm() masked the bad effects of this bug, right?

	Ingo
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