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Date:   Tue, 28 May 2019 23:46:45 +0800
From:   Miles Chen <miles.chen@...iatek.com>
To:     Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
CC:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        <linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <wsd_upstream@...iatek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: make CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32 configurable

On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 11:43 +0100, Robin Murphy wrote:
> On 27/05/2019 17:08, Miles Chen wrote:
> > This change makes CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32 defuly y and allows users
> > to overwrite it.
> > 
> > For the SoCs that do not need CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32, this is the
> > first step to manage all available memory by a single
> > zone(normal zone) to reduce the overhead of multiple zones.
> > 
> > The change also fixes a build error when CONFIG_NUMA=y and
> > CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32=n.
> > 
> > arch/arm64/mm/init.c:195:17: error: use of undeclared identifier 'ZONE_DMA32'
> >                  max_zone_pfns[ZONE_DMA32] = PFN_DOWN(max_zone_dma_phys());
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <miles.chen@...iatek.com>
> > ---
> >   arch/arm64/Kconfig   | 3 ++-
> >   arch/arm64/mm/init.c | 2 ++
> >   2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> > index 76f6e4765f49..9d20a736d1d1 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> > @@ -260,7 +260,8 @@ config GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
> >   	def_bool y
> >   
> >   config ZONE_DMA32
> > -	def_bool y
> > +	bool "Support DMA32 zone"
> 
> This probably warrants an "if EMBEDDED" or "if EXPERT", since turning it 
> off produces a kernel which won't work at all on certain systems (I've 
> played around with this before...)

Thanks for your comment. 
I'll put a "if EXPERT"  here to avoid this case.

> 
> > +	default y
> >   
> >   config HAVE_GENERIC_GUP
> >   	def_bool y
> > diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> > index d2adffb81b5d..96829ce21f99 100644
> > --- a/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/init.c
> > @@ -191,8 +191,10 @@ static void __init zone_sizes_init(unsigned long min, unsigned long max)
> >   {
> >   	unsigned long max_zone_pfns[MAX_NR_ZONES]  = {0};
> >   
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
> >   	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32))
> 
> There's no point keeping the IS_ENABLED() check when it's entirely 
> redundant with the #ifdefs.

I'll remove the IS_ENABLE() code in next patch.

-Miles
> 
> Robin.
> 
> >   		max_zone_pfns[ZONE_DMA32] = PFN_DOWN(max_zone_dma_phys());
> > +#endif
> >   	max_zone_pfns[ZONE_NORMAL] = max;
> >   
> >   	free_area_init_nodes(max_zone_pfns);
> >