[PATCH v2 2/2] mm/mm_init: drop overlap_memmap_init()

From: Mike Rapoport

Date: Tue Jun 30 2026 - 03:23:16 EST


From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>

When ZONE_NORMAL and ZONE_MOVABLE could overlap because kernelcore=mirror
didn't reduce the span of ZONE_NORMAL, initialization of the memory map had
to skip overlapping pages during initialization of ZONE_MOVABLE to avoid
double initialization of the same struct pages.

Since kernelcore=mirror works now the same way as other variants of
kernelcore=/movablecore=, and adjusts the span of ZONE_NORMAL, there can't
be an overlap between ZONE_NORMAL and ZONE_MOVABLE.

Remove overlap_memmap_init().

Co-developed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mm_init.c | 24 ------------------------
1 file changed, 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/mm_init.c b/mm/mm_init.c
index 57923dd33d06..838b5a0ad98d 100644
--- a/mm/mm_init.c
+++ b/mm/mm_init.c
@@ -799,28 +799,6 @@ void __meminit init_deferred_page(unsigned long pfn, int nid)
__init_deferred_page(pfn, nid);
}

-/* If zone is ZONE_MOVABLE but memory is mirrored, it is an overlapped init */
-static bool __meminit
-overlap_memmap_init(unsigned long zone, unsigned long *pfn)
-{
- static struct memblock_region *r __meminitdata;
-
- if (mirrored_kernelcore && zone == ZONE_MOVABLE) {
- if (!r || *pfn >= memblock_region_memory_end_pfn(r)) {
- for_each_mem_region(r) {
- if (*pfn < memblock_region_memory_end_pfn(r))
- break;
- }
- }
- if (*pfn >= memblock_region_memory_base_pfn(r) &&
- memblock_is_mirror(r)) {
- *pfn = memblock_region_memory_end_pfn(r);
- return true;
- }
- }
- return false;
-}
-
/*
* Only struct pages that correspond to ranges defined by memblock.memory
* are zeroed and initialized by going through __init_single_page() during
@@ -907,8 +885,6 @@ void __meminit memmap_init_range(unsigned long size, int nid, unsigned long zone
* function. They do not exist on hotplugged memory.
*/
if (context == MEMINIT_EARLY) {
- if (overlap_memmap_init(zone, &pfn))
- continue;
if (defer_init(nid, pfn, zone_end_pfn)) {
deferred_struct_pages = true;
break;
--
2.53.0