Re: [PATCH V3 (RESEND) 1/3] mm/sparsemem: Enable vmem_altmap support in vmemmap_populate_basepages()

2020-07-02 Thread Catalin Marinas
On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 06:45:28AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote: > vmemmap_populate_basepages() is used across platforms to allocate backing > memory for vmemmap mapping. This is used as a standard default choice or > as a fallback when intended huge pages allocation fails. This just creates >

[PATCH V3 (RESEND) 1/3] mm/sparsemem: Enable vmem_altmap support in vmemmap_populate_basepages()

2020-06-17 Thread Anshuman Khandual
vmemmap_populate_basepages() is used across platforms to allocate backing memory for vmemmap mapping. This is used as a standard default choice or as a fallback when intended huge pages allocation fails. This just creates entire vmemmap mapping with base pages (PAGE_SIZE). On arm64 platforms,