mm/sparse.c: only use subsection map in VMEMMAP case
Currently, to support subsection aligned memory region adding for pmem, subsection map is added to track which subsection is present. However, config ZONE_DEVICE depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP. It means subsection map only makes sense when SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP enabled. For the classic sparse, it's meaningless. Even worse, it may confuse people when checking code related to the classic sparse. About the classic sparse which doesn't support subsection hotplug, Dan said it's more because the effort and maintenance burden outweighs the benefit. Besides, the current 64 bit ARCHes all enable SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE by default. Combining the above reasons, no need to provide subsection map and the relevant handling for the classic sparse. Let's remove them. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200312124414.439-4-bhe@redhat.comSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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