[PATCH v3 09/17] mm/sparse: initialize memory sections earlier
Muchun Song <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Aug 2026 11:55:27 +0800
| Newsgroups | org.kvack.linux-mm,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Upcoming HugeTLB bootmem changes need sparsemem section metadata before the HugeTLB bootmem allocation path runs. The memory sections are initialized from sparse_init(), which is called too late for that setup. Move the code that initializes sparsemem section metadata for memblock ranges into mm_core_init_early(), before free_area_init() and the HugeTLB bootmem setup. Rename the helper to sparse_sections_init() so the new caller describes the sparsemem-specific initialization step. This is a preparatory change. Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <[email protected]> --- v2: - Rename the helper to sparse_sections_init() to describe the section metadata initialization (suggested by Mike Rapoport) - Fix the !SPARSEMEM stub name so SPARSEMEM=n builds compile (reported by Sashiko) --- mm/mm_init.c | 1 + mm/sparse.c | 10 ++-------- mm/sparse.h | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mm_init.c b/mm/mm_init.c index c37fcbe9a319..1855ad3373aa 100644 --- a/mm/mm_init.c +++ b/mm/mm_init.c @@ -2634,6 +2634,7 @@ void __init mm_core_init_early(void) { kho_memory_init_early(); + sparse_sections_init(); free_area_init(); hugetlb_cma_reserve(); diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c index 24555a32a5d9..d4641aa70497 100644 --- a/mm/sparse.c +++ b/mm/sparse.c @@ -191,12 +191,8 @@ static void __init memory_present(int nid, unsigned long start, unsigned long en } } -/* - * Mark all memblocks as present using memory_present(). - * This is a convenience function that is useful to mark all of the systems - * memory as present during initialization. - */ -static void __init memblocks_present(void) +/* Initialize memory section metadata for all system memory. */ +void __init sparse_sections_init(void) { unsigned long start, end; int i, nid; @@ -332,8 +328,6 @@ void __init sparse_init(void) unsigned long pnum_end, pnum_begin, map_count = 1; int nid_begin; - memblocks_present(); - if (compound_info_has_mask()) { VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(!IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long) pfn_to_page(0), MAX_FOLIO_VMEMMAP_ALIGN)); diff --git a/mm/sparse.h b/mm/sparse.h index f8f852f9f8a2..16b9bd3070aa 100644 --- a/mm/sparse.h +++ b/mm/sparse.h @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ static inline bool vmemmap_optimizable_order(unsigned int order) */ #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM void sparse_init(void); +void sparse_sections_init(void); int sparse_index_init(unsigned long section_nr, int nid); static inline void sparse_init_one_section(struct mem_section *ms, @@ -98,6 +99,7 @@ static inline bool section_vmemmap_optimizable(const struct mem_section *section } #else static inline void sparse_init(void) {} +static inline void sparse_sections_init(void) {} #endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM */ /* -- 2.54.0