From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] mm/sparse.c: only use subsection map in VMEMMAP case
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 12:14:54 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4hh5PmF8qU+p7Q903PhX+ho9yHMzLFncmh6psW5YOLU_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200209104826.3385-4-bhe@redhat.com>
On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 2:48 AM Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Currently, subsection map is used when SPARSEMEM is enabled, including
> VMEMMAP case and !VMEMMAP case. However, subsection hotplug is not
> supported at all in SPARSEMEM|!VMEMMAP case, subsection map is unnecessary
> and misleading. Let's adjust code to only allow subsection map being
> used in SPARSEMEM|VMEMMAP case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
> ---
> include/linux/mmzone.h | 2 +
> mm/sparse.c | 231 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
> 2 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> index 462f6873905a..fc0de3a9a51e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> @@ -1185,7 +1185,9 @@ static inline unsigned long section_nr_to_pfn(unsigned long sec)
> #define SUBSECTION_ALIGN_DOWN(pfn) ((pfn) & PAGE_SUBSECTION_MASK)
>
> struct mem_section_usage {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
> DECLARE_BITMAP(subsection_map, SUBSECTIONS_PER_SECTION);
> +#endif
This was done deliberately so that the SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=n case ran as
a subset of the SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=y case.
The diffstat does not seem to agree that this is any clearer:
124 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-11 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-09 10:48 [PATCH 0/7] mm/hotplug: Only use subsection in VMEMMAP case and fix hot add/remove failure in SPARSEMEM|!VMEMMAP case Baoquan He
2020-02-09 10:48 ` [PATCH 1/7] mm/sparse.c: Introduce new function fill_subsection_map() Baoquan He
2020-02-09 23:05 ` Wei Yang
2020-02-09 23:11 ` Wei Yang
2020-02-10 3:25 ` Baoquan He
2020-02-10 9:49 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-11 12:46 ` Baoquan He
2020-02-11 14:44 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-12 11:21 ` Baoquan He
2020-02-09 10:48 ` [PATCH 2/7] mm/sparse.c: Introduce a new function clear_subsection_map() Baoquan He
2020-02-09 23:07 ` Wei Yang
2020-02-10 3:36 ` Baoquan He
2020-02-10 6:02 ` Wei Yang
2020-02-09 10:48 ` [PATCH 3/7] mm/sparse.c: only use subsection map in VMEMMAP case Baoquan He
2020-02-09 23:23 ` Wei Yang
2020-02-11 14:43 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-12 11:26 ` Baoquan He
2020-02-11 20:14 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2020-02-12 9:39 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-12 11:20 ` Baoquan He
2020-02-12 15:48 ` Dan Williams
2020-02-09 10:48 ` [PATCH 4/7] mm/sparse.c: Use __get_free_pages() instead in populate_section_memmap() Baoquan He
2020-02-09 23:39 ` Wei Yang
2020-02-09 10:48 ` [PATCH 5/7] mm/sparse.c: update code comment about section activate/deactivate Baoquan He
2020-02-09 10:48 ` [PATCH 6/7] mm/sparsemem: pfn_to_page is not valid yet on SPARSEMEM Baoquan He
2020-02-10 3:45 ` Baoquan He
2020-02-09 10:48 ` [PATCH 7/7] mm/hotplug: fix hot remove failure in SPARSEMEM|!VMEMMAP case Baoquan He
2020-02-09 23:52 ` Wei Yang
2020-02-10 3:41 ` Baoquan He
2020-02-10 6:08 ` Wei Yang
2020-02-10 7:54 ` Baoquan He
2020-02-10 23:05 ` Wei Yang
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