[PATCH] make __section_nr more efficient

From: Zhou Chengming
Date: Wed Jul 20 2016 - 00:20:01 EST


When CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME is disabled, __section_nr can get
the section number with a subtraction directly.

Signed-off-by: Zhou Chengming <zhouchengming1@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/sparse.c | 12 +++++++-----
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index 5d0cf45..36d7bbb 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -100,11 +100,7 @@ static inline int sparse_index_init(unsigned long section_nr, int nid)
}
#endif

-/*
- * Although written for the SPARSEMEM_EXTREME case, this happens
- * to also work for the flat array case because
- * NR_SECTION_ROOTS==NR_MEM_SECTIONS.
- */
+#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
int __section_nr(struct mem_section* ms)
{
unsigned long root_nr;
@@ -123,6 +119,12 @@ int __section_nr(struct mem_section* ms)

return (root_nr * SECTIONS_PER_ROOT) + (ms - root);
}
+#else
+int __section_nr(struct mem_section* ms)
+{
+ return (int)(ms - mem_section[0]);
+}
+#endif

/*
* During early boot, before section_mem_map is used for an actual
--
1.7.7