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Pavel Tatashin authored
sparse_init() requires to temporary allocate two large buffers: usemap_map and map_map. Baoquan He has identified that these buffers are so large that Linux is not bootable on small memory machines, such as a kdump boot. The buffers are especially large when CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL is set, as they are scaled to the maximum physical memory size. Baoquan provided a fix, which reduces these sizes of these buffers, but it is much better to get rid of them entirely. Add a new way to initialize sparse memory: sparse_init_nid(), which only operates within one memory node, and thus allocates memory either in large contiguous block or allocates section by section. This eliminates the need for use of temporary buffers. For simplified bisecting and review temporarly call sparse_init() new_sparse_init(), the new interface is going to be enabled as well as old code removed in the next patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180712203730.8703-5-pasha.tatashin@oracle.comSigned-off-by:
Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Reviewed-by:
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Tested-by:
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> [powerpc] Cc: Pasha Tatashin <Pavel.Tatashin@microsoft.com> Cc: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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