Re: [PATCH] SPARSEMEM + NUMA can't handle unaligned memory regions?

[Michael Ellerman]

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 15:28 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > 3) record the nid -- when we record the memory present in the system we
> > are passed the nid.
> > 
> > Somehow the last of these seems the most logical given we have the
> > correct information at the time we record that we need to instantiate
> > the section.  So I had a quick go at something which seems to have come
> > out pretty clean.  Attached is a completly untested patch to show what I
> > am proposing.
> 
> Ok.  Attached is a version which builds and boots.  The patch looks
> pretty simple.  Michael could you give it a spin on the broken machine
> for me.

Hey, it's not broken, it's just special :D

That works a treat, boots and otherwise seems fine.

> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> +/*
> + * During early boot we need to record the nid from which we will
> + * later allocate the section mem_map.  Encode this into the section
> + * pointer.  Overload the section_mem_map with this information.
> + */
> +static inline unsigned long sparse_encode_early_nid(int nid)
> +{
> +	return (nid << SECTION_MAP_LAST_BIT);
> +}
> +
> +static inline int sparse_early_nid(struct mem_section *section)
> +{
> +	unsigned long nid = section->section_mem_map;
> +	return (nid >> SECTION_MAP_LAST_BIT);
> +}

What about just for readability: (in linux/mmzone.h)

#define SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT  (1UL<<0)
#define SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP     (1UL<<1)
#define SECTION_MAP_LAST_BIT    (1UL<<2)
#define SECTION_NID_SHIFT       SECTION_MAP_LAST_BIT

cheers

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