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Message-ID: <20201114121516.GA2837@gaia>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 12:15:17 +0000
From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
To: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
Greg Ungerer <gerg@...ux-m68k.org>,
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>, Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>,
Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@...il.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
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Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/13] arm, arm64: move free_unused_memmap() to
generic mm
On Sun, Nov 01, 2020 at 07:04:50PM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
>
> ARM and ARM64 free unused parts of the memory map just before the
> initialization of the page allocator. To allow holes in the memory map both
> architectures overload pfn_valid() and define HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID.
>
> Allowing holes in the memory map for FLATMEM may be useful for small
> machines, such as ARC and m68k and will enable those architectures to cease
> using DISCONTIGMEM and still support more than one memory bank.
>
> Move the functions that free unused memory map to generic mm and enable
> them in case HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID=y.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
For arm64:
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
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