From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 2/4] x86/64/mm: Make SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP the only memory model
Date: Fri, 16 May 2025 08:01:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c44756a5-f65e-4100-9520-a27e77b62c22@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rqkfqkkli57fbd5zkj3bwko44kmqqwnfdm766snm26y2so52ss@6it24qxv356q>
On 5/16/25 07:01, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>> If you remove the dynamic MAX_PHYS{MEM,ADDR}_BITS, you should also
>> remove the dependency on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. No?
> I guess. But how?
>
> And is there any value to support !SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP?
Not really, other than making sure x86 supports a really wide variety of
arch-independent options. I've used it a time or two to go looking for
bugs but I'm not sure if those originated on x86 or other architectures.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-05-16 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-16 12:33 [PATCHv3 0/4] x86: Make 5-level paging support unconditional for x86-64 Kirill A. Shutemov
2025-05-16 12:33 ` [PATCHv3 1/4] x86/64/mm: Always use dynamic memory layout Kirill A. Shutemov
2025-05-16 12:33 ` [PATCHv3 2/4] x86/64/mm: Make SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP the only memory model Kirill A. Shutemov
2025-05-16 13:42 ` Dave Hansen
2025-05-16 13:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2025-05-16 14:59 ` Dave Hansen
2025-05-16 15:08 ` Dave Hansen
2025-05-16 14:01 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2025-05-16 14:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2025-05-16 15:03 ` Dave Hansen
2025-05-16 15:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2025-05-16 15:46 ` Dave Hansen
2025-05-16 18:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
2025-05-16 15:01 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2025-05-16 12:33 ` [PATCHv3 3/4] x86/64/mm: Make 5-level paging support unconditional Kirill A. Shutemov
2025-05-16 12:33 ` [PATCHv3 4/4] x86/paravirt: Restrict PARAVIRT_XXL to 64-bit only Kirill A. Shutemov
2025-05-16 12:43 ` Jürgen Groß
2025-05-16 13:11 ` [PATCHv3 0/4] x86: Make 5-level paging support unconditional for x86-64 Ingo Molnar
2025-05-16 13:17 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2025-05-17 9:59 ` Borislav Petkov
2025-06-24 8:23 ` [PATCHv2 0/3] " Khalid Ali
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