Changelog v1 -> v2:
- Handled comments from Vlastimil Babka and Bharata B Rao
- Changes only in patch 2 and 4.

Sachin recently reported that linux-next was no more bootable on few
powerpc systems.
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/[email protected]/

# numactl -H
available: 2 nodes (0-1)
node 0 cpus:
node 0 size: 0 MB
node 0 free: 0 MB
node 1 cpus: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 
25 26 27 28 29 30 31
node 1 size: 35247 MB
node 1 free: 30907 MB
node distances:
node   0   1
  0:  10  40
  1:  40  10
#

Sachin bisected the problem to Commit a75056fc1e7c ("mm/memcontrol.c: allocate
shrinker_map on appropriate NUMA node")

The root cause analysis showed that mm/slub and powerpc/numa had some 
shortcomings
with respect to offline nodes.

This patch series is on top of patches posted at
https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/[email protected]/t/#u

Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Sachin Sant <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <[email protected]>
Cc: Bharata B Rao <[email protected]>
Cc: Nathan Lynch <[email protected]>

Srikar Dronamraju (4):
  mm: Check for node_online in node_present_pages
  mm/slub: Use mem_node to allocate a new slab
  mm: Implement reset_numa_mem
  powerpc/numa: Set fallback nodes for offline nodes

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/topology.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c           |  1 +
 include/asm-generic/topology.h      |  3 +++
 include/linux/mmzone.h              |  6 ++++--
 include/linux/topology.h            |  7 +++++++
 mm/slub.c                           |  9 +++++----
 6 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

-- 
2.18.1

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