On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 11:00:09AM -0800, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 7:12 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov
> <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> [..]
> > Could you try the patch below instead?
> >
> > From 4a9d843f9d939d958612b0079ebe5743f265e1e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com>
> > Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 17:02:29 +0300
> > Subject: [PATCH] mm, sparse: Fix boot on arm64
> >
> > Since 83e3c48729d9 ("mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for
> > CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y") we allocate mem_section dynamically in
> > sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions(). But some architectures, like
> > arm64, don't use the routine to initialize sparsemem.
> >
> > Let's move the initialization into memory_present() it should cover all
> > architectures.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com>
> > Fixes: 83e3c48729d9 ("mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for
> > CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y")
>
> Will you send out this patch, or will someone pick it up from here?
>
> As with the other arm64 boards this is the difference between
> linux-next (and presumably v4.15-rc1) booting or not on my Qualcomm
> boards.
>
> Tested-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.anders...@linaro.org>
Yes, please can somebody get this into -next asap? I can't take it via
arm64, since this code isn't present there.
If you need it:
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
Will
