From: Mike Rapoport <redacted>

Hi,

These patches aim to remove CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE and essentially hardwire
pfn_valid_within() to 1. 

The idea is to mark NOMAP pages as reserved in the memory map and restore
the intended semantics of pfn_valid() to designate availability of struct
page for a pfn.

With this the core mm will be able to cope with the fact that it cannot use
NOMAP pages and the holes created by NOMAP ranges within MAX_ORDER blocks
will be treated correctly even without the need for pfn_valid_within.

The patches are only boot tested on qemu-system-aarch64 so I'd really
appreciate memory stress tests on real hardware.

If this actually works we'll be one step closer to drop custom pfn_valid()
on arm64 altogether.

v3:
* Fix minor issues found by Anshuman
* Freshen up the declaration of pfn_valid() to make it consistent with
  pfn_is_map_memory()
* Add more Acked-by and Reviewed-by tags, thanks Anshuman and David

v2: Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210421065108.1987-1-rppt@kernel.org (local)
* Add check for PFN overflow in pfn_is_map_memory()
* Add Acked-by and Reviewed-by tags, thanks David.

v1: Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210420090925.7457-1-rppt@kernel.org (local)
* Add comment about the semantics of pfn_valid() as Anshuman suggested
* Extend comments about MEMBLOCK_NOMAP, per Anshuman
* Use pfn_is_map_memory() name for the exported wrapper for
  memblock_is_map_memory(). It is still local to arch/arm64 in the end
  because of header dependency issues.

rfc: Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210407172607.8812-1-rppt@kernel.org (local)

Mike Rapoport (4):
  include/linux/mmzone.h: add documentation for pfn_valid()
  memblock: update initialization of reserved pages
  arm64: decouple check whether pfn is in linear map from pfn_valid()
  arm64: drop pfn_valid_within() and simplify pfn_valid()

 arch/arm64/Kconfig              |  3 ---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/memory.h |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/page.h   |  3 ++-
 arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c            |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/mm/init.c            | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 arch/arm64/mm/ioremap.c         |  4 ++--
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c             |  2 +-
 include/linux/memblock.h        |  4 +++-
 include/linux/mmzone.h          | 11 +++++++++++
 mm/memblock.c                   | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 10 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

base-commit: e49d033bddf5b565044e2abe4241353959bc9120
-- 
2.28.0


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