linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] arch, mm: deprecate DISCONTIGMEM

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Message-ID: <43c53597-6267-bdc2-a975-0aab5daa0d37@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date:   Tue, 17 Nov 2020 06:24:51 +0100
From:   John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Greg Ungerer <gerg@...ux-m68k.org>,
        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>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] arch, mm: deprecate DISCONTIGMEM

Hi!

On 11/1/20 6:04 PM, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> It's been a while since DISCONTIGMEM is generally considered deprecated,
> but it is still used by four architectures. This set replaces DISCONTIGMEM
> with a different way to handle holes in the memory map and marks
> DISCONTIGMEM configuration as BROKEN in Kconfigs of these architectures with
> the intention to completely remove it in several releases.
> 
> While for 64-bit alpha and ia64 the switch to SPARSEMEM is quite obvious
> and was a matter of moving some bits around, for smaller 32-bit arc and
> m68k SPARSEMEM is not necessarily the best thing to do.
> 
> On 32-bit machines SPARSEMEM would require large sections to make section
> index fit in the page flags, but larger sections mean that more memory is
> wasted for unused memory map.
> 
> Besides, pfn_to_page() and page_to_pfn() become less efficient, at least on
> arc.
> 
> So I've decided to generalize arm's approach for freeing of unused parts of
> the memory map with FLATMEM and enable it for both arc and m68k. The
> details are in the description of patches 10 (arc) and 13 (m68k).

Apologies for the late reply. Is this still relevant for testing?

I have already successfully tested v1 of the patch set, shall I test v2?

Adrian

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