Re: [PATCH v10 05/13] mm/sparsemem: Convert kmalloc_section_memmap() to populate_section_memmap()

Oscar Salvador
2019-06-24T18:00:58Z

On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 22:52 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> Allow sub-section sized ranges to be added to the memmap.
> populate_section_memmap() takes an explict pfn range rather than
> assuming a full section, and those parameters are plumbed all the way
> through to vmmemap_populate(). There should be no sub-section usage
> in
> current deployments. New warnings are added to clarify which memmap
> allocation paths are sub-section capable.
>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
> Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
> Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>

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Oscar Salvador
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