linux-kernel - Re: sparsemem: Make SPARSEMEM

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Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:50:02 +0900
From:	Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@...sony.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Subject: Re: sparsemem: Make SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP selectable

Looks good to me.

Thanks.

Acked-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@...fujitsu.com>


> 
> From: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@...sony.com>
> 
> SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP needs to be a selectable config option to
> support building the kernel both with and without sparsemem
> vmemmap support.  This selection is desirable for platforms
> which could be configured one way for platform specific
> builds and the other for multi-platform builds.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miguel Boton <mboton@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@...sony.com>
> ---
> 
> Andrew, 
> 
> Please consider for 2.6.24.
> 
> -Geoff
> 
> 
>  mm/Kconfig |   15 +++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/mm/Kconfig
> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
> @@ -112,18 +112,17 @@ config SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
>  	def_bool y
>  	depends on SPARSEMEM && !SPARSEMEM_STATIC
>  
> -#
> -# SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped mem_map to optimise pfn_to_page
> -# and page_to_pfn.  The most efficient option where kernel virtual space is
> -# not under pressure.
> -#
>  config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
>  	def_bool n
>  
>  config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
> -	bool
> -	depends on SPARSEMEM
> -	default y if (SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE)
> +	bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap"
> +	depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
> +	default y
> +	help
> +	 SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise
> +	 pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations.  This is the most
> +	 efficient option when sufficient kernel resources are available.
>  
>  # eventually, we can have this option just 'select SPARSEMEM'
>  config MEMORY_HOTPLUG
> 
> 

-- 
Yasunori Goto 


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