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    sparse-vmemmap: specify vmemmap population range in bytes · 0aad818b
    Johannes Weiner authored
    
    
    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: default avatarJohannes 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: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Tested-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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