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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv7 01/19] mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime
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On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 10:07:11AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Size of mem_section array depends on size of physical address space.
> > 
> > In preparation for boot-time switching between paging modes on x86-64
> > we need to make allocation of mem_section dynamic.
> > 
> > The patch allocates the array on the first call to
> > sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> 
> What is the size of the allocations here, in bytes, for the two main variants?

For 4-level paging it's 32k. For 5-level paging it's 2M.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov