Re: [PATCH v2] arm64: add ARM64-specific support for flatmem

[Will Deacon]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 10:02:15AM -0700, Nikunj Kela wrote:
> Flatmem is useful in reducing kernel memory usage.
> One usecase is in kdump kernel. We are able to save
> ~14M by moving to flatmem scheme.
> 
> Cc: xe-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Nikunj Kela <nkela@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Nikunj Kela <nkela@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index 42c090c..96ab9a7 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -775,6 +775,10 @@ config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
>  config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
>  	def_bool ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
>  
> +config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
> +	def_bool y
> +	depends on !NUMA

I still don't understand what this has to do with NUMA. SPARSEMEM is still
going to be what you want on a non-NUMA system with large holes in the
physical memory map, no?

Will