[PATCH 0/6] DISCONTIGMEM support for PPC32

[Jonathan Neuschäfer]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 04:02:25PM +0100, Christophe LEROY wrote:
[...]
> > > My question might me stupid, as I don't know PCC64 in deep, but when looking
> > > at page_is_ram() in arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c, I have the feeling the PPC64
> > > implements ram by blocks. Isn't it what you are trying to achieve ? Wouldn't
> > > it be feasible to map to what's done in PPC64 for PPC32 ?
> > 
> > Using page_is_ram in __ioremap_caller and the same memblock-based
> > approach that's used on PPC64 on PPC32 *should* work, but I think due to
> > the following line in initmem_init, it won't:
> > 
> > 	memblock_set_node(0, (phys_addr_t)ULLONG_MAX, &memblock.memory, 0);
> 
> Can't we just fix that ?

I'll give it a try.


Thanks,
Jonathan Neuschäfer
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