Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: remove pfn_valid_within() and CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE

[Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 11:51:46AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 13.07.21 10:00, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
> > 
> > After recent changes in freeing of the unused parts of the memory map and
> > rework of pfn_valid() in arm and arm64 there are no architectures that can
> > have holes in the memory map within a pageblock and so nothing can enable
> > CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE which guards non trivial implementation of
> > pfn_valid_within().
> > 
> > With that, pfn_valid_within() is always hardwired to 1 and can be
> > completely removed.
> > 
> > Remove calls to pfn_valid_within() and CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
> 
> There is currently the discussion to increase MAX_ORDER, for example, to
> cover 1GiB instead of 4MiB on x86-64. This would mean that we could
> suddenly, again, have holes insides MAX_ORDER - 1 pages.
> 
> So I assume if we ever go down that path, we'll need something like this
> again.

It depends whether pageblock_order will be also increased. PFN walkers rely
on continuity of pageblocks rather than MAX_ORDER chunks, so if
pageblock_order won't change, there won't be need to check for pfn_valid()
inside a pageblock.
 
> For now, this looks like the right thing to do
> 
> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

Thanks!

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.