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Message-ID: <b01d66f5-67c9-95a4-7dc7-ec7645560214@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 21 Jun 2022 09:39:31 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        corbet@....net, mike.kravetz@...cle.com, osalvador@...e.de,
        paulmck@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, duanxiongchun@...edance.com, smuchun@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] mm: memory_hotplug: enumerate all supported
 section flags

On 20.06.22 13:06, Muchun Song wrote:
> We are almost running out of section flags, only one bit is available in
> the worst case (powerpc with 256k pages).  However, there are still some
> free bits (in ->section_mem_map) on other architectures (e.g. x86_64 has
> 10 bits available, arm64 has 8 bits available with worst case of 64K
> pages).  We have hard coded those numbers in code, it is inconvenient to
> use those bits on other architectures except powerpc.  So transfer those
> section flags to enumeration to make it easy to add new section flags in
> the future. Also, move SECTION_TAINT_ZONE_DEVICE into the scope of
> CONFIG_ZONE_DEVICE to save a bit on non-zone-device case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb

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