Re: [PATCH] mips: Select SPARSEMEM_EXTREME for CAVIUM_OCTEON_SOC

[Thomas Bogendoerfer]

On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 11:59:42AM +0200, Alexander A Sverdlin wrote:
> From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Commit c46173183657 ("MIPS: Add NUMA support for Loongson-3") has increased
> .bss size of the Octeon kernel from 16k to 16M. Providing the conditions
> for SPARSEMEM_EXTREME avoids the waste of memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/mips/Kconfig | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
> index ec21f89..79cfa1c 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
> @@ -2669,7 +2669,7 @@ config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
>  
>  config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
>  	bool
> -	select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if !SGI_IP27
> +	select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if MACH_LOONGSON64

removing the statement completely gives

      text       data        bss      total filename
  11874896    6019382   17304160   35198438 vmlinux-sparsemem_static
  11935172    6019702     526944   18481818 vmlinux

for a loogsoon64 kernel. And the kernel boots and works just fine.
Can you respin your patch and remove the select SPARSEMEM_STATIC ?

Thomas.

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