From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 24A6D2882C5; Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:51:49 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773863510; cv=none; b=ZuwNksa41Hh1W07mENovw/ayp8v3aVTa4LfBuLncAapw+JS8kfnMt2RApwW1YPWnh3thXIH2pjUIvpgqpNCcpGJu0oObhbsgiCJP5N07IhAkIv1ms31HYbaXsl+f2NOikJwvt40ahUY+sYrRCohz5x/oNBBkNgnv0YIRqv3jmlE= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1773863510; c=relaxed/simple; bh=ATKXW7OYZJzy7zqUfVprOrox3H7IfEFDgiGL1lnrzXM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References: Mime-Version:Content-Type; b=Ucy7O7BzsXrItTUJ5wMj67Z1Q4HSApLhdpXZ4g6JYu9/oHBCKR56+BBdCGCeiMvQpHoW5e9h2xmdUmAYBuI7mBijL3qugLLekPtHKKHRoB9iSwPeFQQPdyuOZiWJuBLRHpL5nAo9pssCllzjy0Bn04Pmf0KcO4Xm5/uqrozQyGg= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux-foundation.org header.i=@linux-foundation.org header.b=ietM5KZ9; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linux-foundation.org header.i=@linux-foundation.org header.b="ietM5KZ9" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5A1CBC19421; Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:51:49 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linux-foundation.org; s=korg; t=1773863509; bh=ATKXW7OYZJzy7zqUfVprOrox3H7IfEFDgiGL1lnrzXM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=ietM5KZ9EEyDu64shWSabErQkw8l25bLGuX1+35aLUN/KzDUl/GwZkYGCDy787GdD hdCnAo7nhOfN1IPk6aTWa3jLlxODrJwGj5dJHUhJOtNpv5Vw6PXMgdBT1muFUz7UPu x1w8fu7+/e5AovPtfduiSJfbfGEn/ifu2HG7n9zQ= Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:51:48 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org, Oscar Salvador , Axel Rasmussen , Yuanchu Xie , Wei Xu , Lorenzo Stoakes , "Liam R. Howlett" , Vlastimil Babka , Mike Rapoport , Suren Baghdasaryan , Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups Message-Id: <20260318125148.b137df94f3c3398cf453e6c1@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20260317165652.99114-1-david@kernel.org> References: <20260317165652.99114-1-david@kernel.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.8.0beta1 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:56:38 +0100 "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" wrote: > Some cleanups around memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM. In essence, > we can limit CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG to CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, > remove some dead code, and move all the hotplug bits over to > mm/sparse-vmemmap.c. > > Some further/related cleanups around other unnecessary code > (memory hole handling and complicated usemap allocation). > > I have some further sparse.c cleanups lying around, and I'm planning > on getting rid of bootmem_info.c entirely. Added to mm-new, thanks. Sashiko said a few things, as I expect you've seen: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260317165652.99114-1-david%40kernel.org