About SECTION_SIZE_BITS for Sparsemem

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Jul 13 05:38:15 EDT 2010


On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:26:58AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> There is also an assumption that a section is fully populated or empty.

That is absolutely absurd.  So, I have a platform which has 256MB at
64MB intervals in 4 chunks.  I can fit 512kB to any slot.  It starts
at 0x10000000.  Do I really need 1024 sparsemem sections to cater for
this?



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