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author | Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> | 2005-06-23 00:08:00 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-06-23 09:45:05 -0700 |
commit | 29751f6991e845f7d002a6ae520bf996b38c8dcd (patch) | |
tree | f76c4c660ac4d204436f68851979343d2a9ba224 /include/asm-ppc64 | |
parent | 641c767389b19859a45e6de46d8e18cd935bdb60 (diff) |
[PATCH] sparsemem hotplug base
Make sparse's initalization be accessible at runtime. This allows sparse
mappings to be created after boot in a hotplug situation.
This patch is separated from the previous one just to give an indication how
much of the sparse infrastructure is *just* for hotplug memory.
The section_mem_map doesn't really store a pointer. It stores something that
is convenient to do some math against to get a pointer. It isn't valid to
just do *section_mem_map, so I don't think it should be stored as a pointer.
There are a couple of things I'd like to store about a section. First of all,
the fact that it is !NULL does not mean that it is present. There could be
such a combination where section_mem_map *is* NULL, but the math gets you
properly to a real mem_map. So, I don't think that check is safe.
Since we're storing 32-bit-aligned structures, we have a few bits in the
bottom of the pointer to play with. Use one bit to encode whether there's
really a mem_map there, and the other one to tell whether there's a valid
section there. We need to distinguish between the two because sometimes
there's a gap between when a section is discovered to be present and when we
can get the mem_map for it.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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