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Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 13:42:42 +0000 From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com> To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, hpa@...or.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, gorcunov@...nvz.org, luto@...capital.net, bp@...e.de, open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com> Subject: Re: [tip:x86/mm] mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y On 02/11/17 13:34, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 12:31:54PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote: >> (+Will, Catalin) >> >> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 1:27 PM, tip-bot for Kirill A. Shutemov >> <tipbot@...or.com> wrote: >>> Commit-ID: 83e3c48729d9ebb7af5a31a504f3fd6aff0348c4 >>> Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/83e3c48729d9ebb7af5a31a504f3fd6aff0348c4 >>> Author: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com> >>> AuthorDate: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 17:08:16 +0300 >>> Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> >>> CommitDate: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 13:07:09 +0200 >>> >>> mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y >>> >>> Size of the mem_section[] array depends on the size of the physical address space. >>> >>> In preparation for boot-time switching between paging modes on x86-64 >>> we need to make the allocation of mem_section[] dynamic, because otherwise >>> we waste a lot of RAM: with CONFIG_NODE_SHIFT=10, mem_section[] size is 32kB >>> for 4-level paging and 2MB for 5-level paging mode. >>> >>> The patch allocates the array on the first call to sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions(). >>> >> >> I am seeing a boot failure with this patch in linux-next today(20171102) > > Could you share the kernel config? > It's the default config on arm64. Generated file is almost 160kB, I will send it to you off-list. > Have you bisected the failure to the commit? > I just reverted this commit as I suspected that and it boots fine after the revert. -- Regards, Sudeep
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