In an ideal world, we wouldn't have to deal with SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, but in particular for 32bit SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is considered too costly and consequently not supported.
However, if an architecture does support SPARSEMEM with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, let's forbid the user to disable VMEMMAP: just like we already do for arm64, s390 and x86. So if SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is supported, don't allow to use SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. This implies that the option to not use SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP will now be gone for loongarch, powerpc, riscv and sparc. All architectures only enable SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP with 64bit support, so there should not really be a big downside to using the VMEMMAP (quite the contrary). This is a preparation for not supporting (1) folio sizes that exceed a single memory section (2) CMA allocations of non-contiguous page ranges in SPARSEMEM without SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP configs, whereby we want to limit possible impact as much as possible (e.g., gigantic hugetlb page allocations suddenly fails). Acked-by: Zi Yan <[email protected]> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <[email protected]> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <[email protected]> Cc: Huacai Chen <[email protected]> Cc: WANG Xuerui <[email protected]> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <[email protected]> Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <[email protected]> Cc: Christophe Leroy <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Walmsley <[email protected]> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <[email protected]> Cc: Albert Ou <[email protected]> Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <[email protected]> Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]> Cc: Andreas Larsson <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]> --- mm/Kconfig | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index 4108bcd967848..330d0e698ef96 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -439,9 +439,8 @@ config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE bool config SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP - bool "Sparse Memory virtual memmap" + def_bool y depends on SPARSEMEM && SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE - default y help SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP uses a virtually mapped memmap to optimise pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn operations. This is the most -- 2.50.1
