On Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 3:48 AM Joao Martins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In support of using compound pages for devmap mappings, plumb the pgmap
> down to the vmemmap_populate implementation. Note that while altmap is
> retrievable from pgmap the memory hotplug code passes altmap without
> pgmap[*], so both need to be independently plumbed.
>
> So in addition to @altmap, pass @pgmap to sparse section populate
> functions namely:
>
>         sparse_add_section
>           section_activate
>             populate_section_memmap
>               __populate_section_memmap
>
> Passing @pgmap allows __populate_section_memmap() to both fetch the
> vmemmap_shift in which memmap metadata is created for and also to let
> sparse-vmemmap fetch pgmap ranges to co-relate to a given section and pick
> whether to just reuse tail pages from past onlined sections.
>
> While at it, fix the kdoc for @altmap for sparse_add_section().
>
> [*] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/
>
> Signed-off-by: Joao Martins <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>

Missed my Reviewed-by from previous version.

Thanks.

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