From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>,
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Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
"Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
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linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 1)
Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 09:46:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <agLawTyWlnuC9Rz1@tiehlicka> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260511-bootmem_info_prep-v1-0-3fb0be6fc688@kernel.org>
On Mon 11-05-26 16:05:28, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> We want to remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE. As a first step,
> let's limit the remaining harm to x86 and core code, removing
> sparc, ppc and s390 leftovers, starting the stepwise removal by removing
> and simplifying some code.
>
> Once a related x86 vmemmap fix [1] is in, we can merge part 2 that will
> remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE entirely.
>
> Tested on x86-64 with hugetlb vmemmap optimization in combination with
> KMEMLEAK, making sure that the problem reported in dd0ff4d12dd2 ("bootmem:
> remove the vmemmap pages from kmemleak in put_page_bootmem") does not
> reappear -- hoping I managed to trigger the original problem.
>
> Heavily cross-compiled, but let's let build bots run on it for a bit.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260429-vmemmap-v2-1-8dfcacffd877@kernel.org
>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
> ---
> David Hildenbrand (Arm) (8):
> sparc/mm: remove register_page_bootmem_info()
> mm/bootmem_info: drop initialization of page->lru
> mm/bootmem_info: stop using PG_private
> mm/bootmem_info: remove call to kmemleak_free_part_phys()
> mm/bootmem_info: stop marking the pgdat as NODE_INFO
> mm/bootmem_info: stop marking mem_section_usage as MIX_SECTION_INFO
> s390/mm: use free_reserved_page() in vmem_free_pages()
> powerpc/mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
>
> arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c | 8 --------
> arch/s390/mm/vmem.c | 3 +--
> arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c | 20 --------------------
> include/linux/bootmem_info.h | 1 -
> mm/Kconfig | 2 +-
> mm/bootmem_info.c | 25 ++-----------------------
> 6 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
Good clean up. Feel free to add
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
to all patches but kmemleak one which I do not feel qualified to judge.
Thanks!
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-12 7:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-11 14:05 [PATCH 0/8] mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 1) David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-11 14:05 ` [PATCH 1/8] sparc/mm: remove register_page_bootmem_info() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-12 8:28 ` Oscar Salvador
2026-05-11 14:05 ` [PATCH 2/8] mm/bootmem_info: drop initialization of page->lru David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-12 8:28 ` Oscar Salvador
2026-05-11 14:05 ` [PATCH 3/8] mm/bootmem_info: stop using PG_private David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-12 8:30 ` Oscar Salvador
2026-05-11 14:05 ` [PATCH 4/8] mm/bootmem_info: remove call to kmemleak_free_part_phys() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-12 8:34 ` Oscar Salvador
2026-05-12 8:45 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-11 14:05 ` [PATCH 5/8] mm/bootmem_info: stop marking the pgdat as NODE_INFO David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-12 7:45 ` Michal Hocko
2026-05-12 7:47 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-12 8:36 ` Oscar Salvador
2026-05-11 14:05 ` [PATCH 6/8] mm/bootmem_info: stop marking mem_section_usage as MIX_SECTION_INFO David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-12 8:37 ` Oscar Salvador
2026-05-11 14:05 ` [PATCH 7/8] s390/mm: use free_reserved_page() in vmem_free_pages() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-11 14:21 ` Heiko Carstens
2026-05-11 14:24 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-11 15:22 ` Heiko Carstens
2026-05-11 15:28 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-12 8:38 ` Oscar Salvador
2026-05-11 14:05 ` [PATCH 8/8] powerpc/mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-12 8:43 ` Oscar Salvador
2026-05-12 7:46 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2026-05-12 7:48 ` [PATCH 0/8] mm: remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE (Part 1) David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-05-12 8:45 ` Oscar Salvador
2026-05-12 8:51 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
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