[PATCH 2/2] powerpc/mm: Increase MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS to 128TB with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP config

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com
Thu Jun 21 18:31:58 AEST 2018


We do this only with VMEMMAP config so that our page_to_[nid/section] etc are not
impacted.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/sparsemem.h | 13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/sparsemem.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/sparsemem.h
index bc66712bdc3c..28f5dae25db6 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/sparsemem.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/sparsemem.h
@@ -6,13 +6,20 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
 /*
  * SECTION_SIZE_BITS		2^N: how big each section will be
- * MAX_PHYSADDR_BITS		2^N: how much physical address space we have
  * MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS		2^N: how much memory we can have in that space
  */
 #define SECTION_SIZE_BITS       24
-
-#define MAX_PHYSADDR_BITS       46
+/*
+ * If we store section details in page->flags we can't increase the MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS
+ * if we increase SECTIONS_WIDTH we will not store node details in page->flags and
+ * page_to_nid does a page->section->node lookup
+ * Hence only increase for VMEMMAP.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
+#define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS        47
+#else
 #define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS        46
+#endif
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM */
 
-- 
2.17.1



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