On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 05:31:57PM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 06:06:43PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > Hi David,
> > 
> > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 04:18:29PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > > "physmem" in the memblock allocator is somewhat weird: it's not actually
> > > used for allocation, it's simply information collected during boot, which
> > > describes the unmodified physical memory map at boot time, without any
> > > standby/hotplugged memory. It's only used on s390x and is currently the
> > > only reason s390x keeps using CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK.
> > > 
> > > Physmem isn't numa aware and current users don't specify any flags. Let's
> > > hide it from the user, exposing only for_each_physmem(), and simplify. The
> > > interface for physmem is now really minimalistic:
> > > - memblock_physmem_add() to add ranges
> > > - for_each_physmem() / __next_physmem_range() to walk physmem ranges
> > > 
> > > Don't place it into an __init section and don't discard it without
> > > CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK. As we're reusing __next_mem_range(), remove
> > > the __meminit notifier to avoid section mismatch warnings once
> > > CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK is no longer used with
> > > CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP.
> > > 
> > > While fixing up the documentation, sneak in some related cleanups. We can
> > > stop setting CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP for s390x next.
> > 
> > As you noted in the previous version it should have been
> > CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK ;-)
> > 
> > > Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
> > > Cc: Vasily Gorbik <[email protected]>
> > > Cc: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
> > > Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
> > > Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
> > > Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
> > 
> > > ---
> > >  arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c |  6 ++--
> > >  include/linux/memblock.h      | 28 ++++++++++++++---
> > >  mm/memblock.c                 | 57 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> > >  3 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> 
> So I guess this should go via the s390 tree, since the second patch of
> this series can go only upstream if both this patch and a patch which
> is currently only on our features are merged before.
> 
> Any objections?

Not from my side.

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.

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