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[2003:d8:2f26:ba00:803:6ec5:9918:6fd]) by smtp.gmail.com with UTF8SMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-45b50e1852asm8722665e9.25.2025.08.21.13.07.06 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:07:08 -0700 (PDT) From: David Hildenbrand To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: David Hildenbrand , Huacai Chen , WANG Xuerui , Madhavan Srinivasan , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , Christophe Leroy , Paul Walmsley , Palmer Dabbelt , Albert Ou , Alexandre Ghiti , "David S. Miller" , Andreas Larsson , Alexander Potapenko , Andrew Morton , Brendan Jackman , Christoph Lameter , Dennis Zhou , Dmitry Vyukov , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, iommu@lists.linux.dev, io-uring@vger.kernel.org, Jason Gunthorpe , Jens Axboe , Johannes Weiner , John Hubbard , kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Liam R. Howlett" , Linus Torvalds , linux-arm-kernel@axis.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Lorenzo Stoakes , Marco Elver , Marek Szyprowski , Michal Hocko , Mike Rapoport , Muchun Song , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Oscar Salvador , Peter Xu , Robin Murphy , Suren Baghdasaryan , Tejun Heo , virtualization@lists.linux.dev, Vlastimil Babka , wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com, x86@kernel.org, Zi Yan Subject: [PATCH RFC 01/35] mm: stop making SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP user-selectable Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:06:27 +0200 Message-ID: <20250821200701.1329277-2-david@redhat.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.50.1 In-Reply-To: <20250821200701.1329277-1-david@redhat.com> References: <20250821200701.1329277-1-david@redhat.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: virtualization@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-MFC-PROC-ID: qfiNwkJJSRVYCBjxZja2GOwBObb_v9GlvetsvMcsrqU_1755806829 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; x-default=true In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to deal with SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, but in particular for 32bit SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is considered too costly and consequently not supported. However, if an architecture does support SPARSEMEM with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, let's forbid the user to disable VMEMMAP: just like we already do for arm64, s390 and x86. So if SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is supported, don't allow to use SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. This implies that the option to not use SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP will now be gone for loongarch, powerpc, riscv and sparc. All architectures only enable SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP with 64bit support, so there should not really be a big downside to using the VMEMMAP (quite the contrary). This is a preparation for not supporting (1) folio sizes that exceed a single memory section (2) CMA allocations of non-contiguous page ranges in SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP configs, whereby we want to limit possible impact as much as possible (e.g., gigantic hugetlb page allocations suddenly fails). Cc: Huacai Chen Cc: WANG Xuerui Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Christophe Leroy Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Alexandre Ghiti Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Andreas Larsson Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand --- mm/Kconfig | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index 4108bcd967848..330d0e698ef96 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -439,9 +439,8 @@ config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE bool config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP - bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" + def_bool y depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE - default y help SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most -- 2.50.1