Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] RISC-V: Implement sparsemem

From: Paul Walmsley
Date: Wed Aug 14 2019 - 13:40:40 EST


On Wed, 14 Aug 2019, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:

> On 2019-08-14 7:35 a.m., Greentime Hu wrote:
>
> > Maybe this commit explains why it used HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID instead of SPARSEMEM.
> > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7b7bf499f79de3f6c85a340c8453a78789523f85
> >
> > BTW, I found another issue here.
> > #define FIXADDR_TOP (VMALLOC_START)
> > #define FIXADDR_START (FIXADDR_TOP - FIXADDR_SIZE)
> > #define VMEMMAP_END (VMALLOC_START - 1)
> > #define VMEMMAP_START (VMALLOC_START - VMEMMAP_SIZE)
> > These 2 regions are overlapped.
> >
> > How about this fix? Not sure if it is good for everyone.
>
> Yes, this looks good to me. I can fold these changes into my patch and
> send a v5 to the list.

The change to FIXADDR_TOP should be separated out into its own patch - it
probably needs to go up as a fix.


- Paul