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Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arc/mm/init.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arc/mm/init.c b/arch/arc/mm/init.c index e2ed355438c9..397a201adfe3 100644 --- a/arch/arc/mm/init.c +++ b/arch/arc/mm/init.c @@ -139,16 +139,13 @@ void __init setup_arch_memory(void) #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM /* - * Populate a new node with highmem - * * On ARC (w/o PAE) HIGHMEM addresses are actually smaller (0 based) - * than addresses in normal ala low memory (0x8000_0000 based). + * than addresses in normal aka low memory (0x8000_0000 based). * Even with PAE, the huge peripheral space hole would waste a lot of - * mem with single mem_map[]. This warrants a mem_map per region design. - * Thus HIGHMEM on ARC is imlemented with DISCONTIGMEM. - * - * DISCONTIGMEM in turns requires multiple nodes. node 0 above is - * populated with normal memory zone while node 1 only has highmem + * mem with single contiguous mem_map[]. + * Thus when HIGHMEM on ARC is enabled the memory map corresponding + * to the hole is freed and ARC specific version of pfn_valid() + * handles the hole in the memory map. */ #ifdef CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM node_set_online(1); |