Re: [PATCH v5 09/17] mm/sparse: initialize memory sections earlier

[David Hildenbrand (Arm)]

> 
>>
>> I have patches to get rid of __section_mark_present() and just set them all to
>> SECTION_IS_EARLY|SECTION_IS_ONLINE such that we can just iterate early sections
>> and get rid of that PRESENT monstrosity.
>>
>> Apart from that LGTM, even though I don't particularly enjoy splitting us now
>> having two init entry points
>>
>> sparse_init
> 
> Maybe this one should be sparse_memmap_init? If yes, it could be another separate
> cleanup patch.

It does way more than that. In my patches I factor some of sparse_init out and
call it sparse_metadata_init() -- memmap and usemap.

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Cheers,

David