From: Kaitao Cheng <kaitao.cheng@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
"Liam R . Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Kaitao Cheng <chengkaitao@kylinos.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Remove unused exact_nid parameter from memmap_alloc()
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:09:14 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ce56891d-8302-411b-a396-66f40760b3be@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260914212200.75878c86ab806c7e09b6c69e@linux-foundation.org>
在 2026/9/15 12:22, Andrew Morton 写道:
> On Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:51:30 +0800 Kaitao Cheng <kaitao.cheng@linux.dev> wrote:
>
>> From: Kaitao Cheng <chengkaitao@kylinos.cn>
>>
>> Commit ffe55393137c ("mm/sparse: remove sparse buffer pre-allocation
>> mechanism") removed sparse_buffer_init(), which was the only caller of
>> memmap_alloc() that passed true for exact_nid.
>>
>> All remaining callers pass false, leaving the exact-node allocation
>> branch unreachable. Remove the exact_nid parameter and unconditionally
>> use memblock_alloc_try_nid_raw().
>>
>> This has no functional impact.
>>
>
> Latest development code has changed quite lot, but this was an easy reject
> to fix:
Thank you very much for helping me fix this issue!
>
>> --- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
>> +++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
>> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static void * __ref __earlyonly_bootmem_alloc(int node,
>> unsigned long align,
>> unsigned long goal)
>> {
>> - return memmap_alloc(size, align, goal, node, false);
>> + return memmap_alloc(size, align, goal, node);
>> }
>>
>> void * __meminit vmemmap_alloc_block(unsigned long size, int node)
>
>
> --- a/mm/sparse.c~mm-remove-unused-exact_nid-parameter-from-memmap_alloc
> +++ a/mm/sparse.c
> @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ struct page __init *__populate_section_m
> {
> const unsigned long size = PAGE_ALIGN(sizeof(struct page) * PAGES_PER_SECTION);
>
> - return memmap_alloc(size, size, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS), nid, false);
> + return memmap_alloc(size, size, __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS), nid);
> }
> #endif /* !CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP */
>
>
--
Thanks
Kaitao Cheng
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-15 8:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-14 5:51 Kaitao Cheng
2026-09-14 6:33 ` Muchun Song
2026-09-15 4:22 ` Andrew Morton
2026-09-15 8:09 ` Kaitao Cheng [this message]
2026-09-15 8:46 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
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