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@ 2020-10-27 11:29 Mike Rapoport
  2020-10-27 11:29 ` [PATCH 01/13] alpha: switch from DISCONTIGMEM to SPARSEMEM Mike Rapoport
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From: Mike Rapoport @ 2020-10-27 11:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: Alexey Dobriyan, Catalin Marinas, Geert Uytterhoeven,
	Greg Ungerer, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, Jonathan Corbet,
	Matt Turner, Meelis Roos, Michael Schmitz, Mike Rapoport,
	Mike Rapoport, Russell King, Tony Luck, Vineet Gupta,
	Will Deacon, linux-alpha, linux-arm-kernel, linux-doc,
	linux-fsdevel, linux-ia64, linux-kernel, linux-m68k, linux-mm,
	linux-snps-arc

From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>

Hi,

It's been a while since DISCONTIGMEM is generally considered deprecated,
but it is still used by four architectures. This set replaces DISCONTIGMEM
with a different way to handle holes in the memory map and marks
DISCONTIGMEM configuration as BROKEN in Kconfigs of these architectures with
the intention to completely remove it in several releases.

While for 64-bit alpha and ia64 the switch to SPARSEMEM is quite obvious
and was a matter of moving some bits around, for smaller 32-bit arc and
m68k SPARSEMEM is not necessarily the best thing to do.

On 32-bit machines SPARSEMEM would require large sections to make section
index fit in the page flags, but larger sections mean that more memory is
wasted for unused memory map.

Besides, pfn_to_page() and page_to_pfn() become less efficient, at least on
arc.

So I've decided to generalize arm's approach for freeing of unused parts of
the memory map with FLATMEM and enable it for both arc and m68k. The
details are in the description of patches 10 (arc) and 13 (m68k).

Mike Rapoport (13):
  alpha: switch from DISCONTIGMEM to SPARSEMEM
  ia64: remove custom __early_pfn_to_nid()
  ia64: remove 'ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32' statements
  ia64: discontig: paging_init(): remove local max_pfn calculation
  ia64: split virtual map initialization out of paging_init()
  ia64: forbid using VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP with FLATMEM
  ia64: make SPARSEMEM default and disable DISCONTIGMEM
  arm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL
  arm, arm64: move free_unused_memmap() to generic mm
  arc: use FLATMEM with freeing of unused memory map instead of DISCONTIGMEM
  m68k/mm: make node data and node setup depend on CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
  m68k/mm: enable use of generic memory_model.h for !DISCONTIGMEM
  m68k: deprecate DISCONTIGMEM

 Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst   |  3 +-
 arch/Kconfig                        |  3 ++
 arch/alpha/Kconfig                  |  8 +++
 arch/alpha/include/asm/mmzone.h     | 14 +----
 arch/alpha/include/asm/page.h       |  7 +--
 arch/alpha/include/asm/pgtable.h    | 12 ++---
 arch/alpha/include/asm/sparsemem.h  | 18 +++++++
 arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c           |  1 +
 arch/arc/Kconfig                    |  3 +-
 arch/arc/include/asm/page.h         | 20 ++++++--
 arch/arc/mm/init.c                  | 29 ++++++++---
 arch/arm/Kconfig                    | 10 +---
 arch/arm/mach-bcm/Kconfig           |  1 -
 arch/arm/mach-davinci/Kconfig       |  1 -
 arch/arm/mach-exynos/Kconfig        |  1 -
 arch/arm/mach-highbank/Kconfig      |  1 -
 arch/arm/mach-omap2/Kconfig         |  1 -
 arch/arm/mach-s5pv210/Kconfig       |  1 -
 arch/arm/mach-tango/Kconfig         |  1 -
 arch/arm/mm/init.c                  | 78 ----------------------------
 arch/arm64/Kconfig                  |  4 +-
 arch/arm64/mm/init.c                | 68 ------------------------
 arch/ia64/Kconfig                   | 11 ++--
 arch/ia64/include/asm/meminit.h     |  2 -
 arch/ia64/mm/contig.c               | 58 ++++++++++-----------
 arch/ia64/mm/discontig.c            | 44 ++++++++--------
 arch/ia64/mm/init.c                 | 14 -----
 arch/ia64/mm/numa.c                 | 30 -----------
 arch/m68k/Kconfig.cpu               | 32 ++++++++++--
 arch/m68k/include/asm/page.h        |  2 +
 arch/m68k/include/asm/page_mm.h     |  7 ++-
 arch/m68k/include/asm/virtconvert.h |  2 +-
 arch/m68k/mm/init.c                 |  8 +--
 fs/proc/kcore.c                     |  2 -
 include/linux/mm.h                  |  3 --
 include/linux/mmzone.h              | 42 ---------------
 mm/memblock.c                       | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 mm/mmzone.c                         | 14 -----
 mm/page_alloc.c                     | 16 ++++--
 mm/vmstat.c                         |  4 --
 40 files changed, 272 insertions(+), 384 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/alpha/include/asm/sparsemem.h


base-commit: 3650b228f83adda7e5ee532e2b90429c03f7b9ec
-- 
2.28.0


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2020-10-27 11:29 ` [PATCH 02/13] ia64: remove custom __early_pfn_to_nid() Mike Rapoport
2020-10-27 11:29 ` [PATCH 03/13] ia64: remove 'ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32' statements Mike Rapoport
2020-10-27 11:29 ` [PATCH 04/13] ia64: discontig: paging_init(): remove local max_pfn calculation Mike Rapoport
2020-10-27 11:29 ` [PATCH 05/13] ia64: split virtual map initialization out of paging_init() Mike Rapoport
2020-10-27 11:29 ` [PATCH 06/13] ia64: forbid using VIRTUAL_MEM_MAP with FLATMEM Mike Rapoport
2020-10-27 11:29 ` [PATCH 07/13] ia64: make SPARSEMEM default and disable DISCONTIGMEM Mike Rapoport
2020-12-12 16:01   ` Guenter Roeck
2020-12-13  8:36     ` Mike Rapoport
2020-10-27 11:29 ` [PATCH 08/13] arm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL Mike Rapoport
2020-10-27 11:29 ` [PATCH 09/13] arm, arm64: move free_unused_memmap() to generic mm Mike Rapoport
2020-10-27 11:29 ` [PATCH 10/13] arc: use FLATMEM with freeing of unused memory map instead of DISCONTIGMEM Mike Rapoport
2020-10-27 11:29 ` [PATCH 11/13] m68k/mm: make node data and node setup depend on CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM Mike Rapoport
2020-10-28  9:25   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-28 11:16     ` Mike Rapoport
2020-10-28 18:14       ` Michael Schmitz
2020-10-28 18:57         ` Mike Rapoport
2020-11-01 16:55       ` Mike Rapoport
2020-10-27 11:29 ` [PATCH 12/13] m68k/mm: enable use of generic memory_model.h for !DISCONTIGMEM Mike Rapoport
2020-10-27 11:29 ` [PATCH 13/13] m68k: deprecate DISCONTIGMEM Mike Rapoport

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