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    mm/sparsemem: add helpers track active portions of a section at boot · f46edbd1
    Dan Williams authored
    Prepare for hot{plug,remove} of sub-ranges of a section by tracking a
    sub-section active bitmask, each bit representing a PMD_SIZE span of the
    architecture's memory hotplug section size.
    
    The implications of a partially populated section is that pfn_valid()
    needs to go beyond a valid_section() check and either determine that the
    section is an "early section", or read the sub-section active ranges
    from the bitmask.  The expectation is that the bitmask (subsection_map)
    fits in the same cacheline as the valid_section() / early_section()
    data, so the incremental performance overhead to pfn_valid() should be
    negligible.
    
    The rationale for using early_section() to short-ciruit the
    subsection_map check is that there are legacy code paths that use
    pfn_valid() at section granularity before validating the pfn against
    pgdat data.  So, the early_section() check allows those traditional
    assumptions to persist while also permitting subsection_map to tell the
    truth for purposes of populating the unused portions of early sections
    with PMEM and other ZONE_DEVICE mappings.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156092350874.979959.18185938451405518285.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarQian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
    Tested-by: default avatarJane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
    Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>	[ppc64]
    Reviewed-by: default avatarOscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
    Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
    Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
    Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
    Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
    Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
    Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
    Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
    Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
    Cc: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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