[PATCH] RISC-V: enable sparsemem by default for defconfig

[Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>]

From: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>

on an arch level, RISC-V defaults to FLATMEM. On PolarFire SoC, the
memory layout is almost always sparse, with a maximum of 1 GiB at
0x8000_0000 & a possible 16 GiB range at 0x10_0000_0000. The Icicle kit,
for example, has 2 GiB of DDR - so there's a big hole in the memory map
between the two gigs. Prior to v6.1-rc1, boot times from defconfig
builds were pretty bad on Icicle but enabling sparsemem would fix those
issues. As of v6.1-rc1, the Icicle kit no longer boots from defconfig
builds with the in-kernel devicetree. A change to the memory map
resulted in a futher "sparse-ification", producing a splat on boot:

	OF: fdt: Ignoring memory range 0x80000000 - 0x80200000
	Machine model: Microchip PolarFire-SoC Icicle Kit
	earlycon: ns16550a0 at MMIO32 0x0000000020100000 (options '115200n8')
	printk: bootconsole [ns16550a0] enabled
	printk: debug: skip boot console de-registration.
	efi: UEFI not found.
	Zone ranges:
	  DMA32    [mem 0x0000000080200000-0x00000000ffffffff]
	  Normal   [mem 0x0000000100000000-0x000000107fffffff]
	Movable zone start for each node
	Early memory node ranges
	  node   0: [mem 0x0000000080200000-0x00000000bfbfffff]
	  node   0: [mem 0x00000000bfc00000-0x00000000bfffffff]
	  node   0: [mem 0x0000001040000000-0x000000107fffffff]
	Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000080200000-0x000000107fffffff]
	Kernel panic - not syncing: Failed to allocate 1073741824 bytes for node 0 memory map
	CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.19.0-dirty #1
	Hardware name: Microchip PolarFire-SoC Icicle Kit (DT)
	Call Trace:
	[<ffffffff800057f0>] show_stack+0x30/0x3c
	[<ffffffff807d5802>] dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x66
	[<ffffffff807d5836>] dump_stack+0x18/0x20
	[<ffffffff807d1ae8>] panic+0x124/0x2c6
	[<ffffffff80814064>] free_area_init_core+0x0/0x11e
	[<ffffffff80813720>] free_area_init_node+0xc2/0xf6
	[<ffffffff8081331e>] free_area_init+0x222/0x260
	[<ffffffff808064d6>] misc_mem_init+0x62/0x9a
	[<ffffffff80803cb2>] setup_arch+0xb0/0xea
	[<ffffffff8080039a>] start_kernel+0x88/0x4ee
	---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Failed to allocate 1073741824 bytes for node 0 memory map ]---

With the aim of keeping defconfig builds booting on icicle, enable
SPARSEMEM_MANUAL.

Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@microchip.com>
---

I had it in my head that keeping defconfig booting on ~all~ as many
platforms as possible was a goal, I think from one of the Kconfig.socs
conversations. Hence this patch..

 arch/riscv/configs/defconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/riscv/configs/defconfig b/arch/riscv/configs/defconfig
index 05fd5fcf24f9..daba5d743862 100644
--- a/arch/riscv/configs/defconfig
+++ b/arch/riscv/configs/defconfig
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ CONFIG_KVM=m
 CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL=y
 CONFIG_MODULES=y
 CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y
+CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_MANUAL=y
 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=y
 CONFIG_NET=y
 CONFIG_PACKET=y
-- 
2.38.0


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