Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 22 Dec 2017 16:03:26 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4.14 023/159] mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y |
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On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 08:18:10AM -0600, Dan Rue wrote: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 09:45:08AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> > > > > commit 83e3c48729d9ebb7af5a31a504f3fd6aff0348c4 upstream. > > > > Size of the mem_section[] array depends on the size of the physical address space. > > > > In preparation for boot-time switching between paging modes on x86-64 > > we need to make the allocation of mem_section[] dynamic, because otherwise > > we waste a lot of RAM: with CONFIG_NODE_SHIFT=10, mem_section[] size is 32kB > > for 4-level paging and 2MB for 5-level paging mode. > > > > The patch allocates the array on the first call to sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions(). > > > > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> > > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > > Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> > > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> > > Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> > > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> > > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > > Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org > > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170929140821.37654-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com > > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > This patch causes a boot failure on arm64. > > Please drop this patch, or pick up the fix in: > > commit 629a359bdb0e0652a8227b4ff3125431995fec6e > Author: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> > Date: Tue Nov 7 11:33:37 2017 +0300 > > mm/sparsemem: Fix ARM64 boot crash when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y > > See https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg1527427.html
Now added, thanks.
greg k-h
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