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author | Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com> | 2015-08-10 20:53:11 +0100 |
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committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2016-02-16 16:35:21 +0000 |
commit | db57f88e4ccbbb6dd194b3f3088b3dc1987db423 (patch) | |
tree | ac3ad110fead4028c0b19ecaeb47e943ebb05743 | |
parent | 416dd13ad620a14fbabe5d73584b12e07ce8d02e (diff) |
ARM: 8411/1: Add default SPARSEMEM settings
We can still override these settings via mach/memory.h, but let's provide
sensible defaults so that SPARSEMEM is available in the multiplatform
kernels.
Two platforms currently use SECTION_SIZE_BITS < 28, but are expected to
work with 28 (albeit slightly less efficiently if not all banks are
populated):
- mach-rpc: uses 26 bits. Based on mach/hardware.h it looks like this
platform puts RAM at 0x1000_0000 - 0x1fff_ffff, and I/O below
0x1000_0000.
- mach-sa1100: uses 27 bits. mach/memory.h indicates that RAM occupies
the entire range of 0xc000_0000 - 0xdfff_ffff.
But Arnd says in that rpc and sa1100 will never have to use the
default since they cannot be part of a multiplatform kernel, and that
is unlikely to change.
Several platforms need MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS >= 36 so we'll pick that as the
minimum. Anything higher and we'll fail the SECTIONS_WIDTH + NODES_WIDTH +
ZONES_WIDTH test in <linux/mm.h>.
Some analysis from Russell King at
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2014-October/298957.html:
I think this is fine in as far as it goes - this means we end up with
256 entries in the mem_section array which means it occupies one page,
which I think is acceptable overhead.
The other thing to be aware of here is the obvious:
#if (MAX_ORDER - 1 + PAGE_SHIFT) > SECTION_SIZE_BITS
#error Allocator MAX_ORDER exceeds SECTION_SIZE
#endif
Which means that with 28 bits of section, that's a maximum allocator
order of 16. We appear to allow FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER to be set up to
64 in the case of shmobile, which doesn't seem like a sensible upper
limit - and certainly isn't when sparsemem is enabled.
Given this, I think that FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER's help, and the
dependencies probably could do with some improvement to make the
issues more transparent.
[gregory.0xf0: added notes from Arnd and Russell]
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Tested-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Fong <gregory.0xf0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
-rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/include/asm/sparsemem.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/sparsemem.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/sparsemem.h index 00098615c6f0..73e5e8513751 100644 --- a/arch/arm/include/asm/sparsemem.h +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/sparsemem.h @@ -15,10 +15,11 @@ * Eg, if you have 2 banks of up to 64MB at 0x80000000, 0x84000000, * then MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS is 32, SECTION_SIZE_BITS is 26. * - * Define these in your mach/memory.h. + * These can be overridden in your mach/memory.h. */ -#if !defined(SECTION_SIZE_BITS) || !defined(MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS) -#error Sparsemem is not supported on this platform +#if !defined(MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS) || !defined(SECTION_SIZE_BITS) +#define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS 36 +#define SECTION_SIZE_BITS 28 #endif #endif |