From 237e506cd5af254fbc3be560d57c29163133aaf6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 15:58:22 -0700 Subject: docs/vm: update memory-models documentation To reflect the updates to free_area_init() family of functions. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Hoan Tran <hoan@os.amperecomputing.com> [arm64] Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Brian Cain <bcain@codeaurora.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@pku.edu.cn> Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Ley Foon Tan <ley.foon.tan@intel.com> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Nick Hu <nickhu@andestech.com> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200412194859.12663-22-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> --- Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst b/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst index 58a12376b7df..91228044ed16 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst @@ -46,11 +46,10 @@ maps the entire physical memory. For most architectures, the holes have entries in the `mem_map` array. The `struct page` objects corresponding to the holes are never fully initialized. -To allocate the `mem_map` array, architecture specific setup code -should call :c:func:`free_area_init_node` function or its convenience -wrapper :c:func:`free_area_init`. 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. +To allocate the `mem_map` array, architecture specific setup code should +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 -- cgit v1.2.3