[tip:x86/mm] x86: make sparse mem work in non-NUMA mode

From: tip-bot for Shaohua Li
Date: Tue May 12 2009 - 05:33:38 EST


Commit-ID: ed077b58f6146684069975122b1728a9d248a501
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/ed077b58f6146684069975122b1728a9d248a501
Author: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 12 May 2009 16:40:00 +0800
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Tue, 12 May 2009 11:26:35 +0200

x86: make sparse mem work in non-NUMA mode

With sparse memory, holes should not be marked present for memmap.
This patch makes sure sparsemem really works on SMP mode (!NUMA).

[ Impact: use less memory to map fragmented RAM, avoid boot-OOM/crash ]

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@xxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <1242117600.22431.0.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>


---
arch/x86/mm/init_32.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
index fef1d90..949708d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
@@ -706,15 +706,15 @@ void __init initmem_init(unsigned long start_pfn,
highstart_pfn = highend_pfn = max_pfn;
if (max_pfn > max_low_pfn)
highstart_pfn = max_low_pfn;
- memory_present(0, 0, highend_pfn);
e820_register_active_regions(0, 0, highend_pfn);
+ sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions(0);
printk(KERN_NOTICE "%ldMB HIGHMEM available.\n",
pages_to_mb(highend_pfn - highstart_pfn));
num_physpages = highend_pfn;
high_memory = (void *) __va(highstart_pfn * PAGE_SIZE - 1) + 1;
#else
- memory_present(0, 0, max_low_pfn);
e820_register_active_regions(0, 0, max_low_pfn);
+ sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions(0);
num_physpages = max_low_pfn;
high_memory = (void *) __va(max_low_pfn * PAGE_SIZE - 1) + 1;
#endif
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