Boot failures with "mm/sparse: Remove CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER" on powerpc (was Re: mmotm 2018-07-10-16-50 uploaded)

[Pavel Tatashin]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 5:50 AM Oscar Salvador
<osalvador at techadventures.net> wrote:
>
> > > I just roughly check, but if I checked the right place,
> > > vmemmap_populated() checks for the section to contain the flags we are
> > > setting in sparse_init_one_section().
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > But with this patch, we populate first everything, and then we call
> > > sparse_init_one_section() in sparse_init().
> > > As I said I could be mistaken because I just checked the surface.

Yes, this is right, sparse_init_one_section() is needed after every
populate call on ppc64. I am adding this to my sparse_init re-write,
and it actually simplifies code, as it avoids one extra loop, and
makes ppc64 to work.

Pavel