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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>,
	 Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	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>,
	Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>,
	 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


  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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