[PATCH] powerpc: Build fix for non SPARSEMEM_VMEMAP config
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Jun 29 15:50:57 AEST 2017
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> On Wednesday 28 June 2017 12:48 PM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>> On 28/06/17 16:09, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>>> We can use pfn_to_page in realmode for other configs. Hence remove the
>>> CONFIG_FLATMEM ifdef
>>
>> For CONFIG_SPARSEMEM and CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM and others (I am struggling to
>> find the full list :) )? Are you sure about that? If I recall correctly, at
>> the time realmode_pfn_to_page() could not work for all of them, what changed?
>
> That is one thing I wanted to check. Everything other than
> SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP should use linear mapping which can work with real
> mode also right ? Or am i missing something ?
I think that's right. But I'm going to make you test it anyway :)
cheers
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