Re: [PATCH 6/8] mm/bootmem_info: stop marking mem_section_usage as MIX_SECTION_INFO

Oscar Salvador <[email protected]> Tue, 12 May 2026 10:37:19 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.sparclinux,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-s390,org.kvack.linux-mm,org.ozlabs.lists.linuxppc-dev
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On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 04:05:34PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote:
> We never free the ms->usage data for boot memory sections (see
> section_deactivate()). And to identify whether ms->usage was allocated
> from memblock, we simply identify it by looking at PG_reserved.
> 
> Consequently, there is no need to mark ms->usage as MIX_SECTION_INFO.
> Let's just stop doing that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>

 

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Oscar Salvador
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