[PATCH] sparsemem base: simple NUMA remap space allocator

Introduce a simple allocator for the NUMA remap space.  This space is very
scarce, used for structures which are best allocated node local.

This mechanism is also used on non-NUMA ia64 systems with a vmem_map to keep
the pgdat->node_mem_map initialized in a consistent place for all
architectures.

Issues:
o alloc_remap takes a node_id where we might expect a pgdat which was intended
  to allow us to allocate the pgdat's using this mechanism; which we do not yet
  do.  Could have alloc_remap_node() and alloc_remap_nid() for this purpose.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/i386/Kconfig b/arch/i386/Kconfig
index dfd904f6883b..35ca3a17ed20 100644
--- a/arch/i386/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig
@@ -803,6 +803,11 @@ config NEED_NODE_MEMMAP_SIZE
         depends on DISCONTIGMEM
         default y
 
+config HAVE_ARCH_ALLOC_REMAP
+        bool
+        depends on NUMA
+        default y
+
 config HIGHPTE
         bool "Allocate 3rd-level pagetables from highmem"
         depends on HIGHMEM4G || HIGHMEM64G