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[PATCH] mm: ZONE_DEVICE depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP

Started byDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
First post2016-03-05 01:50 +0100
Last post2016-03-07 11:00 +0100
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  [PATCH] mm: ZONE_DEVICE depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> - 2016-03-05 01:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] mm: ZONE_DEVICE depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2016-03-07 11:00 +0100

#1350717 — [PATCH] mm: ZONE_DEVICE depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP

FromDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date2016-03-05 01:50 +0100
Subject[PATCH] mm: ZONE_DEVICE depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
Message-ID<r98zT-6BN-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
The primary use case for devm_memremap_pages() is to allocate an
memmap array from persistent memory.  That capabilty requires
vmem_altmap which requires SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP.

Also, without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP the addition of ZONE_DEVICE expands
ZONES_WIDTH and triggers the:

"Unfortunate NUMA and NUMA Balancing config, growing page-frame for
last_cpupid."

...warning in mm/memory.c.  SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=n && ZONE_DEVICE=y is not
a configuration we should worry about supporting.

Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
---
 mm/Kconfig |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 664fa2416909..b95322ba542b 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -654,6 +654,7 @@ config ZONE_DEVICE
 	bool "Device memory (pmem, etc...) hotplug support" if EXPERT
 	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
 	depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
+	depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
 	depends on X86_64 #arch_add_memory() comprehends device memory
 
 	help

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#1351462

FromVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Date2016-03-07 11:00 +0100
Message-ID<ra07i-1aG-39@gated-at.bofh.it>
In reply to#1350717
On 03/05/2016 01:42 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
> The primary use case for devm_memremap_pages() is to allocate an
> memmap array from persistent memory.  That capabilty requires
> vmem_altmap which requires SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP.

Some if the ifdefs around to_vmem_altmap() could now be simplified, but 
that can also be done later...

> Also, without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP the addition of ZONE_DEVICE expands
> ZONES_WIDTH and triggers the:
>
> "Unfortunate NUMA and NUMA Balancing config, growing page-frame for
> last_cpupid."
>
> ...warning in mm/memory.c.  SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP=n && ZONE_DEVICE=y is not
> a configuration we should worry about supporting.
>
> Reported-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

> ---
>   mm/Kconfig |    1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
> index 664fa2416909..b95322ba542b 100644
> --- a/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -654,6 +654,7 @@ config ZONE_DEVICE
>   	bool "Device memory (pmem, etc...) hotplug support" if EXPERT
>   	depends on MEMORY_HOTPLUG
>   	depends on MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
> +	depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
>   	depends on X86_64 #arch_add_memory() comprehends device memory
>
>   	help
>

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