From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org, driver-core@lists.linux.dev,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
"David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 02/12] mm/sparse: refactor sparse_sections_init()
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:32:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260909-b4-sparsemem_cleanups-v1-2-008fc8d579fe@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260909-b4-sparsemem_cleanups-v1-0-008fc8d579fe@kernel.org>
memory_present() really identifies+prepares all early sections so the
initialization in sparse_init() can properly iterating them to
initialize metadata.
Let's just inline memory_present() into sparse_sections_init() and
cleaning up the code a bit while at it: make it clear that we are operating
on pfns.
Note that we call set_section_nid() now only if the section
was not already created earlier. Now, there is no more inconsistency
between what we (temporarily) store in ms->section_mem_map and what
we store in our section->nid array.
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
---
mm/sparse.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++------------------------
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index 6a6d258862904..36e3d854febc5 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -179,22 +179,27 @@ static inline unsigned long first_present_section_nr(void)
return next_present_section_nr(-1);
}
-/* Record a memory area against a node. */
-static void __init memory_present(int nid, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
+void __init sparse_sections_init(void)
{
- unsigned long pfn;
+ unsigned long pfn, start_pfn, end_pfn;
+ int i, nid;
+
+ sparse_extreme_init();
- start &= PAGE_SECTION_MASK;
- mminit_validate_memmodel_limits(&start, &end);
- for (pfn = start; pfn < end; pfn += PAGES_PER_SECTION) {
- unsigned long section_nr = pfn_to_section_nr(pfn);
- struct mem_section *ms;
+ for_each_mem_pfn_range(i, MAX_NUMNODES, &start_pfn, &end_pfn, &nid) {
+ start_pfn &= PAGE_SECTION_MASK;
+ mminit_validate_memmodel_limits(&start_pfn, &end_pfn);
- sparse_index_init(section_nr, nid);
- set_section_nid(section_nr, nid);
+ for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn += PAGES_PER_SECTION) {
+ unsigned long section_nr = pfn_to_section_nr(pfn);
+ struct mem_section *ms;
- ms = __nr_to_section(section_nr);
- if (!ms->section_mem_map) {
+ sparse_index_init(section_nr, nid);
+ ms = __nr_to_section(section_nr);
+ if (ms->section_mem_map)
+ continue;
+
+ set_section_nid(section_nr, nid);
ms->section_mem_map = sparse_encode_early_nid(nid) |
SECTION_IS_ONLINE;
__section_mark_present(ms, section_nr);
@@ -202,18 +207,6 @@ static void __init memory_present(int nid, unsigned long start, unsigned long en
}
}
-/* Initialize memory section metadata for all system memory. */
-void __init sparse_sections_init(void)
-{
- unsigned long start, end;
- int i, nid;
-
- sparse_extreme_init();
-
- for_each_mem_pfn_range(i, MAX_NUMNODES, &start, &end, &nid)
- memory_present(nid, start, end);
-}
-
#ifndef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
struct page __init *__populate_section_memmap(unsigned long pfn,
unsigned long nr_pages, int nid, struct vmem_altmap *altmap,
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-09 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-09 13:32 [PATCH 00/12] mm/sparse: remove SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT and further cleanups David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-09 13:32 ` [PATCH 01/12] mm/sparse: move mem_section init to sparse_extreme_init() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-09 17:02 ` Oscar Salvador (SUSE)
2026-09-10 12:52 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 13:13 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 13:33 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 13:32 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-09-09 17:09 ` [PATCH 02/12] mm/sparse: refactor sparse_sections_init() Oscar Salvador (SUSE)
2026-09-09 17:18 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 13:29 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 14:30 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 14:38 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 13:32 ` [PATCH 03/12] mm/sparse: move initialization of section metadata to sparse_metadata_init() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-09 17:22 ` Oscar Salvador (SUSE)
2026-09-10 13:43 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 13:32 ` [PATCH 04/12] mm/sparse: rename and cleanup sparse_init_nid() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 7:41 ` Oscar Salvador (SUSE)
2026-09-10 13:46 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 14:29 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-09 13:32 ` [PATCH 05/12] mm/sparse: cleanup sparse_init_one_section() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 7:45 ` Oscar Salvador (SUSE)
2026-09-10 13:47 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 13:32 ` [PATCH 06/12] mm/sparse: rename __highest_present_section_nr to __highest_used_section_nr David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 7:56 ` Oscar Salvador (SUSE)
2026-09-10 13:49 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 13:33 ` [PATCH 07/12] mm/sparse: remove pfn_in_present_section() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 7:59 ` Oscar Salvador (SUSE)
2026-09-10 13:50 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 13:33 ` [PATCH 08/12] mm/sparse: move __highest_used_section_nr handling David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-09 14:44 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 8:33 ` Oscar Salvador (SUSE)
2026-09-10 9:13 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 12:08 ` Oscar Salvador (SUSE)
2026-09-10 13:33 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 14:16 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 14:29 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 14:51 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 13:33 ` [PATCH 09/12] mm/sparse: remove SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 12:15 ` Oscar Salvador (SUSE)
2026-09-10 14:32 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 15:11 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-09 13:33 ` [PATCH 10/12] mm/sparse: remove flags parameter from sparse_init_one_section() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 12:34 ` Oscar Salvador (SUSE)
2026-09-10 14:34 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-09 13:33 ` [PATCH 11/12] fs/proc/page: clarify comment in get_max_dump_pfn() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 12:46 ` Oscar Salvador (SUSE)
2026-09-10 14:41 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 15:14 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-09 13:33 ` [PATCH 12/12] mm/memory_hotplug: drop CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID handling from pfn_to_online_page() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-10 14:47 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-09-10 15:15 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
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