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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: mem-model: add flatmem model for arm64
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:31:53PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On 11 April 2016 at 11:59, Chen Feng <puck.chen@hisilicon.com> wrote:
> > Please see the pg-tables below.
> >
> >
> > With sparse and vmemmap enable.
> >
> > ---[ vmemmap start ]---
> > 0xffffffbdc0200000-0xffffffbdc4800000 70M RW NX SHD AF UXN MEM/NORMAL
> > ---[ vmemmap end ]---
> >
>
> OK, I see what you mean now. Sorry for taking so long to catch up.
>
> > The board is 4GB, and the memap is 70MB
> > 1G memory --- 14MB mem_map array.
>
> No, this is incorrect. 1 GB corresponds with 16 MB worth of struct
> pages assuming sizeof(struct page) == 64
>
> So you are losing 6 MB to rounding here, which I agree is significant.
> I wonder if it makes sense to use a lower value for SECTION_SIZE_BITS
> on 4k pages kernels, but perhaps we're better off asking the opinion
> of the other cc'ees.

You need to be really careful making SECTION_SIZE_BITS smaller because
it has a direct correlation on the use of page->flags and you can end up
running out of bits fairly easily.

Will

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