[PATCH] arm64: Force SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP as the only memory management model

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Apr 23 18:09:46 BST 2021


On Tue, 20 Apr 2021 10:35:59 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Currently arm64 allows a choice of FLATMEM, SPARSEMEM and
> SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. However, only the latter is tested regularly. FLATMEM
> does not seem to boot in certain configurations (guest under KVM with
> Qemu as a VMM). Since the reduction of the SECTION_SIZE_BITS to 27 (4K
> pages) or 29 (64K page), there's little argument against the memory
> wasted by the mem_map array with SPARSEMEM.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/core).

[1/1] arm64: Force SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP as the only memory management model
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/782276b4d0ad

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Catalin




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