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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:38:15 +0100
Subject: About SECTION_SIZE_BITS for Sparsemem
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On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:26:58AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> There is also an assumption that a section is fully populated or empty.

That is absolutely absurd.  So, I have a platform which has 256MB at
64MB intervals in 4 chunks.  I can fit 512kB to any slot.  It starts
at 0x10000000.  Do I really need 1024 sparsemem sections to cater for
this?