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Date:	Tue, 5 Apr 2016 16:22:51 +0800
From:	Chen Feng <puck.chen@...ilicon.com>
To:	<catalin.marinas@....com>, <will.deacon@....com>,
	<ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>, <mark.rutland@....com>,
	<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, <robin.murphy@....com>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <mhocko@...e.com>,
	<kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>, <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	<linux-mm@...ck.org>
CC:	<puck.chen@...ilicon.com>, <puck.chen@...mail.com>,
	<oliver.fu@...ilicon.com>, <linuxarm@...wei.com>,
	<dan.zhao@...ilicon.com>, <suzhuangluan@...ilicon.com>,
	<yudongbin@...licon.com>, <albert.lubing@...ilicon.com>,
	<xuyiping@...ilicon.com>, <saberlily.xia@...ilicon.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: mem-model: add flatmem model for arm64

We can reduce the memory allocated at mem-map
by flatmem.

currently, the default memory-model in arm64 is
sparse memory. The mem-map array is not freed in
this scene. If the physical address is too long,
it will reserved too much memory for the mem-map
array.

Signed-off-by: Chen Feng <puck.chen@...ilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Fu Jun <oliver.fu@...ilicon.com>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 4f43622..c18930d 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -559,6 +559,9 @@ config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
 	def_bool y
 	select SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE
 
+config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
+	def_bool y
+
 config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
 	def_bool ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
 
-- 
1.9.1

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