For example, If the physical address layout on a two node system with 8 GB
memory is something like:
node 0: 0-2GB, 4-6GB
node 1: 2-4GB, 6-8GB
Current kernels fail to boot/detect this NUMA topology.
ACPI SRAT tables can expose such a topology which needs to be supported.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
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diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 227fdb0..99eb102 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -880,6 +880,15 @@ config X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
help
Enable ACPI SRAT based node topology detection.
+# Some NUMA nodes have memory ranges that span
+# other nodes. Even though a pfn is valid and
+# between a node's start and end pfns, it may not
+# reside on that node. See memmap_init_zone()
+# for details.
+config NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
+ def_bool y
+ depends on X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
+