Re: [PATCH v5 2/4] x86/vmemmap: Drop handling of 1GB vmemmap ranges

[Oscar Salvador]

On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 10:34:51AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 3/9/21 9:41 AM, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> > We never get to allocate 1GB pages when mapping the vmemmap range.
> > Drop the dead code both for the aligned and unaligned cases and leave
> > only the direct map handling.
> 
> I was hoping to seem some more meat in this changelog, possibly some of
> what David Hildenbrand said in the v4 thread about this patch.
> Basically, we don't have code to allocate 1G mappings because it isn't
> clear that it would be worth the complexity, and it might also waste memory.
> 
> I'm fine with the code, but I would appreciate a beefed-up changelog:
> 
> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Since I had to do another pass to fix up some compilaton errors,
I added a bit more of explanation in that regard.

Thanks!


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Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3