Re: [tip:x86/mm] mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y

[Bjorn Andersson]

On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 7:12 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov
<kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[..]
> Could you try the patch below instead?
>
> From 4a9d843f9d939d958612b0079ebe5743f265e1e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 17:02:29 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] mm, sparse: Fix boot on arm64
>
> Since 83e3c48729d9 ("mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for
> CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y") we allocate mem_section dynamically in
> sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions(). But some architectures, like
> arm64, don't use the routine to initialize sparsemem.
>
> Let's move the initialization into memory_present() it should cover all
> architectures.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 83e3c48729d9 ("mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y")

Will you send out this patch, or will someone pick it up from here?

As with the other arm64 boards this is the difference between
linux-next (and presumably v4.15-rc1) booting or not on my Qualcomm
boards.

Tested-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,
Bjorn