From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 03/12] mm/sparsemem: Add helpers track active portions of a section at boot
Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 09:31:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190503073121.GA15740@linux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4jPG56sf4hHaKEoacQbDEpcMrr4fJVEwkxGjcWcCmieNQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 07:03:45AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > section_active_mask() also converts the value to address/size.
> > Why do we need to convert the values and we cannot work with pfn/pages instead?
> > It should be perfectly possible unless I am missing something.
> >
> > The only thing required would be to export earlier your:
> >
> > +#define PAGES_PER_SUB_SECTION (SECTION_ACTIVE_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE)
> > +#define PAGE_SUB_SECTION_MASK (~(PAGES_PER_SUB_SECTION-1))
> >
> > and change section_active_index to:
> >
> > static inline int section_active_index(unsigned long pfn)
> > {
> > return (pfn & ~(PAGE_SECTION_MASK)) / SUB_SECTION_ACTIVE_PAGES;
Sorry, here I meant:
return (pfn & ~(PAGE_SECTION_MASK)) / PAGES_PER_SUB_SECTION;
But I think you got the idea :-)
--
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-03 7:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-02 5:55 [PATCH v7 00/12] mm: Sub-section memory hotplug support Dan Williams
2019-05-02 5:55 ` [PATCH v7 01/12] mm/sparsemem: Introduce struct mem_section_usage Dan Williams
2019-05-03 7:35 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-05-02 5:55 ` [PATCH v7 02/12] mm/sparsemem: Introduce common definitions for the size and mask of a section Dan Williams
2019-05-03 8:06 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-05-02 5:55 ` [PATCH v7 03/12] mm/sparsemem: Add helpers track active portions of a section at boot Dan Williams
2019-05-02 7:48 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-05-02 14:03 ` Dan Williams
2019-05-03 7:31 ` Oscar Salvador [this message]
2019-05-03 19:52 ` Pavel Tatashin
2019-05-02 5:55 ` [PATCH v7 04/12] mm/hotplug: Prepare shrink_{zone, pgdat}_span for sub-section removal Dan Williams
2019-05-02 5:55 ` [PATCH v7 05/12] mm/sparsemem: Convert kmalloc_section_memmap() to populate_section_memmap() Dan Williams
2019-05-03 8:46 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-05-02 5:55 ` [PATCH v7 06/12] mm/hotplug: Kill is_dev_zone() usage in __remove_pages() Dan Williams
2019-05-02 11:27 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-05-03 7:37 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-05-02 5:55 ` [PATCH v7 07/12] mm: Kill is_dev_zone() helper Dan Williams
2019-05-02 5:56 ` [PATCH v7 08/12] mm/sparsemem: Prepare for sub-section ranges Dan Williams
2019-05-03 11:00 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-05-02 5:56 ` [PATCH v7 09/12] mm/sparsemem: Support sub-section hotplug Dan Williams
2019-05-03 12:56 ` Oscar Salvador
2019-06-04 4:17 ` Dan Williams
2019-05-02 5:56 ` [PATCH v7 10/12] mm/devm_memremap_pages: Enable sub-section remap Dan Williams
2019-05-02 5:56 ` [PATCH v7 11/12] libnvdimm/pfn: Fix fsdax-mode namespace info-block zero-fields Dan Williams
2019-05-02 5:56 ` [PATCH v7 12/12] libnvdimm/pfn: Stop padding pmem namespaces to section alignment Dan Williams
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