+ mm-sparse-move-mem_section-init-to-sparse_extreme_init.patch added to mm-new branch

+ mm-sparse-move-mem_section-init-to-sparse_extreme_init.patch added to mm-new branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: mm/sparse: move mem_section init to sparse_extreme_init()
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     mm-sparse-move-mem_section-init-to-sparse_extreme_init.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-sparse-move-mem_section-init-to-sparse_extreme_init.patch

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    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Subject: mm/sparse: move mem_section init to sparse_extreme_init()
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:58:53 +0200

Patch series "mm/sparse: remove SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT and further
cleanups", v2.

SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT is really only needed during boot, where we can
instead just rely on SECTION_IS_EARLY_BIT by setting that flag earlier.

Some preparations for doing that conversion and some cleanups in the same
(sparse) area.


This patch (of 13):

Let's just avoid another pair of ifdef inside a function.  While at it,
switch to INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES by just defining a fallback in cache.h as
well, given that the x86 variant already provides one.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260921-b4-sparsemem_cleanups-v2-0-54d81d65e125@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260921-b4-sparsemem_cleanups-v2-1-54d81d65e125@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Kieran Bingham <kbingham@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
---

 include/linux/cache.h |    1 +
 mm/sparse.c           |   19 ++++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/cache.h~mm-sparse-move-mem_section-init-to-sparse_extreme_init
+++ a/include/linux/cache.h
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@
  */
 #ifndef INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT
 #define INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT L1_CACHE_SHIFT
+#define INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES (1 << INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT)
 #endif
 
 #if !defined(____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp)
--- a/mm/sparse.c~mm-sparse-move-mem_section-init-to-sparse_extreme_init
+++ a/mm/sparse.c
@@ -103,11 +103,22 @@ int __meminit sparse_index_init(unsigned
 
 	return 0;
 }
+
+static void __init sparse_extreme_init(void)
+{
+	const unsigned long size = sizeof(struct mem_section *) * NR_SECTION_ROOTS;
+
+	mem_section = memblock_alloc_or_panic(size, INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES);
+}
 #else /* !SPARSEMEM_EXTREME */
 int __meminit sparse_index_init(unsigned long section_nr, int nid)
 {
 	return 0;
 }
+
+static void __init sparse_extreme_init(void)
+{
+}
 #endif
 
 /*
@@ -196,13 +207,7 @@ void __init sparse_sections_init(void)
 	unsigned long start, end;
 	int i, nid;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
-	unsigned long size, align;
-
-	size = sizeof(struct mem_section *) * NR_SECTION_ROOTS;
-	align = 1 << (INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT);
-	mem_section = memblock_alloc_or_panic(size, align);
-#endif
+	sparse_extreme_init();
 
 	for_each_mem_pfn_range(i, MAX_NUMNODES, &start, &end, &nid)
 		memory_present(nid, start, end);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from david@kernel.org are

maintainers-split-up-memory-management-memory-policy-and-migration.patch
maintainers-move-memory-tiering-under-memory-management-numa-placement.patch
maintainers-make-gregory-a-co-maintainer-of-memory-management-numa-placement.patch
selftests-mm-khugepaged-remove-str_dup-usage.patch
mm-sparse-move-mem_section-init-to-sparse_extreme_init.patch
mm-sparse-refactor-sparse_sections_init.patch
mm-sparse-move-initialization-of-section-metadata-to-sparse_metadata_init.patch
mm-sparse-rename-and-cleanup-sparse_init_nid.patch
mm-sparse-cleanup-sparse_init_one_section.patch
mm-sparse-rename-__highest_present_section_nr-to-__highest_used_section_nr.patch
mm-sparse-remove-pfn_in_present_section.patch
mm-sparse-move-__highest_used_section_nr-handling.patch
scripts-gdb-mmpy-remove-fallbacks-for-section_has_mem_map-and-section_is_early.patch
mm-sparse-remove-section_marked_present.patch
mm-sparse-remove-flags-parameter-from-sparse_init_one_section.patch
fs-proc-page-clarify-comment-in-get_max_dump_pfn.patch
mm-memory_hotplug-drop-config_have_arch_pfn_valid-handling-from-pfn_to_online_page.patch