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authorMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>2020-12-15 06:09:55 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-12-15 23:13:42 +0300
commit5e545df3292fbd3d5963c68980f1527ead2a2b3f (patch)
tree82d82e900cec901340f21c038170283e718699b9 /Documentation/vm
parent214496cb18700fd7c5206ac33768876dbf68b4df (diff)
downloadlinux-5e545df3292fbd3d5963c68980f1527ead2a2b3f.tar.xz
arm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL
ARM is the only architecture that defines CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL which in turn enables memmap_valid_within() function that is intended to verify existence of struct page associated with a pfn when there are holes in the memory map. However, the ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL also enables HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID and arch-specific pfn_valid() implementation that also deals with the holes in the memory map. The only two users of memmap_valid_within() call this function after a call to pfn_valid() so the memmap_valid_within() check becomes redundant. Remove CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL and memmap_valid_within() and rely entirely on ARM's implementation of pfn_valid() that is now enabled unconditionally. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201101170454.9567-9-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org> Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> Cc: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst b/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst
index 9daadf9faba1..ce398a7dc6cd 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst
+++ b/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst
@@ -51,8 +51,7 @@ call :c:func:`free_area_init` function. Yet, the mappings array is not
usable until the call to :c:func:`memblock_free_all` that hands all the
memory to the page allocator.
-If an architecture enables `CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL` option,
-it may free parts of the `mem_map` array that do not cover the
+An architecture may free parts of the `mem_map` array that do not cover the
actual physical pages. In such case, the architecture specific
:c:func:`pfn_valid` implementation should take the holes in the
`mem_map` into account.