From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
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Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>,
Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>,
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Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>, Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>,
Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>,
Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
Kieran Bingham <kbingham@kernel.org>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
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
Subject: [PATCH v2 06/13] mm/sparse: rename __highest_present_section_nr to __highest_used_section_nr
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:58:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260921-b4-sparsemem_cleanups-v2-6-54d81d65e125@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260921-b4-sparsemem_cleanups-v2-0-54d81d65e125@kernel.org>
In preparation for getting rid of SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT, rename
__highest_present_section_nr and clarify the comment.
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
---
include/linux/mmzone.h | 6 +++---
mm/compaction.c | 2 +-
mm/sparse.c | 12 ++++--------
mm/sparse.h | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index ebbda6f311392..0c2fea48c261b 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -2181,7 +2181,7 @@ static inline struct mem_section *__pfn_to_section(unsigned long pfn)
return __nr_to_section(pfn_to_section_nr(pfn));
}
-extern unsigned long __highest_present_section_nr;
+extern unsigned long __highest_used_section_nr;
static inline int subsection_map_index(unsigned long pfn)
{
@@ -2280,7 +2280,7 @@ static inline unsigned long first_valid_pfn(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long end
rcu_read_lock_sched();
- while (nr <= __highest_present_section_nr && pfn < end_pfn) {
+ while (nr <= __highest_used_section_nr && pfn < end_pfn) {
struct mem_section *ms = __pfn_to_section(pfn);
if (valid_section(ms) &&
@@ -2335,7 +2335,7 @@ static inline int pfn_in_present_section(unsigned long pfn)
static inline unsigned long next_present_section_nr(unsigned long section_nr)
{
- while (++section_nr <= __highest_present_section_nr) {
+ while (++section_nr <= __highest_used_section_nr) {
if (present_section_nr(section_nr))
return section_nr;
}
diff --git a/mm/compaction.c b/mm/compaction.c
index 4994e200bbecd..f1b2060eb2016 100644
--- a/mm/compaction.c
+++ b/mm/compaction.c
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ static unsigned long skip_offline_sections(unsigned long start_pfn)
if (online_section_nr(start_nr))
return 0;
- while (++start_nr <= __highest_present_section_nr) {
+ while (++start_nr <= __highest_used_section_nr) {
if (online_section_nr(start_nr))
return section_nr_to_pfn(start_nr);
}
diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index 3c19d47559090..bb89017254f4d 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -164,15 +164,11 @@ static void __init mminit_validate_memmodel_limits(unsigned long *start_pfn,
}
/*
- * There are a number of times that we loop over NR_MEM_SECTIONS,
- * looking for section_present() on each. But, when we have very
- * large physical address spaces, NR_MEM_SECTIONS can also be
- * very large which makes the loops quite long.
- *
- * Keeping track of this gives us an easy way to break out of
- * those loops early.
+ * Looping over all possible memory sections is expensive, especially if
+ * NR_MEM_SECTIONS is large but only a fraction is actually used. Keep track of
+ * the highest section number we ever used.
*/
-unsigned long __highest_present_section_nr;
+unsigned long __highest_used_section_nr;
static inline unsigned long first_present_section_nr(void)
{
diff --git a/mm/sparse.h b/mm/sparse.h
index 4ee507c34b98d..242b7bab0013c 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.h
+++ b/mm/sparse.h
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ static inline void sparse_init_one_section(struct mem_section *ms,
static inline void __section_mark_present(struct mem_section *ms,
unsigned long section_nr)
{
- if (section_nr > __highest_present_section_nr)
- __highest_present_section_nr = section_nr;
+ if (section_nr > __highest_used_section_nr)
+ __highest_used_section_nr = section_nr;
ms->section_mem_map |= SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT;
}
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-21 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-21 19:58 [PATCH v2 00/13] mm/sparse: remove SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT and further cleanups David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-21 19:58 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] mm/sparse: move mem_section init to sparse_extreme_init() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-21 23:12 ` Zi Yan
2026-09-21 19:58 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] mm/sparse: refactor sparse_sections_init() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-21 19:58 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] mm/sparse: move initialization of section metadata to sparse_metadata_init() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-21 19:58 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] mm/sparse: rename and cleanup sparse_init_nid() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-21 19:58 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] mm/sparse: cleanup sparse_init_one_section() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-21 19:58 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-09-21 19:58 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] mm/sparse: remove pfn_in_present_section() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-21 19:59 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] mm/sparse: move __highest_used_section_nr handling David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-22 4:24 ` Oscar Salvador (SUSE)
2026-09-21 19:59 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] scripts/gdb: mm.py: remove fallbacks for SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP and SECTION_IS_EARLY David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-21 19:59 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] mm/sparse: remove SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-21 19:59 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] mm/sparse: remove flags parameter from sparse_init_one_section() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-21 19:59 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] fs/proc/page: clarify comment in get_max_dump_pfn() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-21 19:59 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] mm/memory_hotplug: drop CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID handling from pfn_to_online_page() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-22 4:25 ` Oscar Salvador (SUSE)
2026-09-21 22:53 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] mm/sparse: remove SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT and further cleanups Andrew Morton
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