linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] arm64: drop pfn_valid_within() and simplify pfn

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Message-ID: <YJtoQhidtIJOhYsV@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 12 May 2021 08:31:46 +0300
From:   Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] arm64: drop pfn_valid_within() and simplify
 pfn_valid()

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 04:40:01PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 11 May 2021 13:05:50 +0300 Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> > From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
> > 
> > The arm64's version of pfn_valid() differs from the generic because of two
> > reasons:
> > 
> > * Parts of the memory map are freed during boot. This makes it necessary to
> >   verify that there is actual physical memory that corresponds to a pfn
> >   which is done by querying memblock.
> > 
> > * There are NOMAP memory regions. These regions are not mapped in the
> >   linear map and until the previous commit the struct pages representing
> >   these areas had default values.
> > 
> > As the consequence of absence of the special treatment of NOMAP regions in
> > the memory map it was necessary to use memblock_is_map_memory() in
> > pfn_valid() and to have pfn_valid_within() aliased to pfn_valid() so that
> > generic mm functionality would not treat a NOMAP page as a normal page.
> > 
> > Since the NOMAP regions are now marked as PageReserved(), pfn walkers and
> > the rest of core mm will treat them as unusable memory and thus
> > pfn_valid_within() is no longer required at all and can be disabled by
> > removing CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE on arm64.
> > 
> > pfn_valid() can be slightly simplified by replacing
> > memblock_is_map_memory() with memblock_is_memory().
> > 
> > ...
> >
> > --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> > @@ -1052,9 +1052,6 @@ config NEED_PER_CPU_EMBED_FIRST_CHUNK
> >  	def_bool y
> >  	depends on NUMA
> >  
> > -config HOLES_IN_ZONE
> > -	def_bool y
> > -
> >  source "kernel/Kconfig.hz"
> >  
> >  config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
> 
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210417075946.181402-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
> already did this, so I simply dropped that hunk? 
> And I don't think the changelog needs updating for this?

We need another hunk instead (below)

> And I don't think the changelog needs updating for this?

maybe "s/disabled by removing CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE/disabled/", but does not
seem that important to me.

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 3d6c7436a2fa..d7dc8698cf8e 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -201,7 +201,6 @@ config ARM64
 	select HAVE_KPROBES
 	select HAVE_KRETPROBES
 	select HAVE_GENERIC_VDSO
-	select HOLES_IN_ZONE
 	select IOMMU_DMA if IOMMU_SUPPORT
 	select IRQ_DOMAIN
 	select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING