Re: [PATCH 01/12] mm/sparse: move mem_section init to sparse_extreme_init()

["Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2026 at 03:13:26PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> On 9/10/26 14:52, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 09, 2026 at 03:32:54PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> >> Let's just avoid another pair of ifdef inside a function. While at it,
> >> switch to INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES by just defining a fallback in cache.h
> >> as well, given that the x86 variant already provides one.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
> >
> > Nic ecleanup, one nit below.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
> >
> >> ---
> >>  include/linux/cache.h |  1 +
> >>  mm/sparse.c           | 19 ++++++++++++-------
> >>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/include/linux/cache.h b/include/linux/cache.h
> >> index e69768f50d532..b6e857b985bca 100644
> >> --- a/include/linux/cache.h
> >> +++ b/include/linux/cache.h
> >> @@ -89,6 +89,7 @@
> >>   */
> >>  #ifndef INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT
> >>  #define INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT L1_CACHE_SHIFT
> >> +#define INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES (1 << INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT)
> >
> > NIT: 1UL?
>
> I decided to replicate the existing
>
> arch/x86/include/asm/cache.h:#define INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES (1 << INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT)
>
> If the shifted value would ever not fit into an int something would be
> going really wrong ;)

Yup, fair enough!

>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> David

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Cheers, Lorenzo