On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 04:05:28PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> We want to remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE. As a first step,
> let's limit the remaining harm to x86 and core code, removing
> sparc, ppc and s390 leftovers, starting the stepwise removal by removing
> and simplifying some code.
>
> Once a related x86 vmemmap fix [1] is in, we can merge part 2 that will
> remove CONFIG_HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE entirely.
>
> Tested on x86-64 with hugetlb vmemmap optimization in combination with
> KMEMLEAK, making sure that the problem reported in dd0ff4d12dd2 ("bootmem:
> remove the vmemmap pages from kmemleak in put_page_bootmem") does not
> reappear -- hoping I managed to trigger the original problem.
>
> Heavily cross-compiled, but let's let build bots run on it for a bit.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <[email protected]>
Awesome cleanup David, thanks for doing this ;-)
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Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs
