linux/arch/ia64/mm
Johannes Weiner 0aad818b2d sparse-vmemmap: specify vmemmap population range in bytes
The sparse code, when asking the architecture to populate the vmemmap,
specifies the section range as a starting page and a number of pages.

This is an awkward interface, because none of the arch-specific code
actually thinks of the range in terms of 'struct page' units and always
translates it to bytes first.

In addition, later patches mix huge page and regular page backing for
the vmemmap.  For this, they need to call vmemmap_populate_basepages()
on sub-section ranges with PAGE_SIZE and PMD_SIZE in mind.  But these
are not necessarily multiples of the 'struct page' size and so this unit
is too coarse.

Just translate the section range into bytes once in the generic sparse
code, then pass byte ranges down the stack.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Bernhard Schmidt <Bernhard.Schmidt@lrz.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tested-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-29 15:54:35 -07:00
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Makefile [PATCH] ia64: ioremap: check EFI for valid memory attributes 2006-03-26 08:56:54 -08:00
contig.c mm, show_mem: suppress page counts in non-blockable contexts 2013-04-29 15:54:28 -07:00
discontig.c sparse-vmemmap: specify vmemmap population range in bytes 2013-04-29 15:54:35 -07:00
extable.c [IA64] fix compile error in arch/ia64/mm/extable.c 2009-06-15 09:17:50 -07:00
fault.c readahead: fault retry breaks mmap file read random detection 2012-10-09 16:22:47 +09:00
hugetlbpage.c mm: use vm_unmapped_area() in hugetlbfs on ia64 architecture 2013-02-22 13:48:24 -08:00
init.c mm/IA64: use common help functions to free reserved pages 2013-04-29 15:54:30 -07:00
ioremap.c Add WB/UC check for early_ioremap 2013-03-19 16:14:52 -07:00
numa.c Fix build error for numa_clear_node() under IA64 2013-04-02 09:39:48 -07:00
tlb.c IA64: drivers: remove __dev* attributes. 2013-01-03 15:57:13 -08:00