linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/4] x86/vmemmap: Drop handling of 1GB vmemmap ranges

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Date:   Tue, 9 Mar 2021 22:27:50 +0100
From:   Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        x86@...nel.org, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/4] x86/vmemmap: Drop handling of 1GB vmemmap ranges

On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 10:34:51AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 3/9/21 9:41 AM, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> > We never get to allocate 1GB pages when mapping the vmemmap range.
> > Drop the dead code both for the aligned and unaligned cases and leave
> > only the direct map handling.
> 
> I was hoping to seem some more meat in this changelog, possibly some of
> what David Hildenbrand said in the v4 thread about this patch.
> Basically, we don't have code to allocate 1G mappings because it isn't
> clear that it would be worth the complexity, and it might also waste memory.
> 
> I'm fine with the code, but I would appreciate a beefed-up changelog:
> 
> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>

Since I had to do another pass to fix up some compilaton errors,
I added a bit more of explanation in that regard.

Thanks!


-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3