Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) It may have started as a
workaround for some particular case where they did something wrong "on
purpose", and then they entirely forgot about it, and five years later
it's running their whole infrastructure and doing insane things
because the "particular case" it was tested with was on some broken
preproduction machine with totally broken firmware tables for memory
node layout.
node layout.
Linus
Linus
Linus
node layout.
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