[PATCH] ARM: mm: Regarding section when dealing with meminfo

Dave Hansen dave at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Jan 24 13:47:37 EST 2011


On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 17:58 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> Wrong.  For flatmem, we have a pfn_valid() which is backed by doing a
> one, two or maybe rarely three compare search of the memblocks.  Short
> of having a bitmap of every page in the 4GB memory space, you can't
> get more efficient than that.

Sweet.  So, we can just take the original patch that started this
conversation, add the requisite pfn_valid()s and pfn_to_page()s, and
skip the sparsemem #ifdefs.  Right?

-- Dave




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