linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/sparsemem: Defer the ms->section_mem

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Date:   Thu, 1 Feb 2018 22:38:08 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
        mhocko@...e.com, tglx@...utronix.de, douly.fnst@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/sparsemem: Defer the ms->section_mem_map clearing
 a little later

On 02/01/18 at 06:15am, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 01/31/2018 11:19 PM, Baoquan He wrote:
> >  	for_each_present_section_nr(0, pnum) {
> > +		struct mem_section *ms;
> > +		ms = __nr_to_section(pnum);
> >  		usemap = usemap_map[pnum];
> > -		if (!usemap)
> > +		if (!usemap) {
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER
> > +			ms->section_mem_map = 0;
> > +#endif
> >  			continue;
> > +		}
> >  
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER
> >  		map = map_map[pnum];
> >  #else
> >  		map = sparse_early_mem_map_alloc(pnum);
> >  #endif
> > -		if (!map)
> > +		if (!map) {
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER
> > +			ms->section_mem_map = 0;
> > +#endif
> >  			continue;
> > +		}
> 
> This is starting to look like code that only a mother could love.  Can
> this be cleaned up a bit?

Sorry, will try. Just wonder why we don't need to clear
ms->section_mem_map when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER is not
set. Will look into to find reason.