[PATCH 0/1] arm64/sparsemem: reduce SECTION_SIZE_BITS

Will Deacon will at kernel.org
Thu Jan 21 13:26:39 EST 2021


On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 21:29:12 -0800, Sudarshan Rajagopalan wrote:
> This patch is the follow-up from the discussions in the thread [1].
> Reducing the section size has the merit of reducing wastage of reserved memory
> for vmmemmap mappings for sections with large memory holes. Also with smaller
> section size gives more grunularity and agility for memory hot(un)plugging.
> 
> But there are also constraints in reducing SECTION_SIZE_BIT:
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!

[1/1] arm64/sparsemem: reduce SECTION_SIZE_BITS
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/f0b13ee23241

Cheers,
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Will

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