[PATCH] SPARSEMEM EXTREME

A new option for SPARSEMEM is ARCH_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME.  Architecture
platforms with a very sparse physical address space would likely want to
select this option.  For those architecture platforms that don't select the
option, the code generated is equivalent to SPARSEMEM currently in -mm.
I'll be posting a patch on ia64 ml which uses this new SPARSEMEM feature.

ARCH_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME makes mem_section a one dimensional array of
pointers to mem_sections.  This two level layout scheme is able to achieve
smaller memory requirements for SPARSEMEM with the tradeoff of an
additional shift and load when fetching the memory section.  The current
SPARSEMEM -mm implementation is a one dimensional array of mem_sections
which is the default SPARSEMEM configuration.  The patch attempts isolates
the implementation details of the physical layout of the sparsemem section
array.

ARCH_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME depends on 64BIT and is by default boolean false.

I've boot tested under aim load ia64 configured for ARCH_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME.
 I've also boot tested a 4 way Opteron machine with !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
and tested with aim.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
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, 28 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 6c90461ed99f..b97054bbc394 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -487,6 +487,28 @@ struct mem_section {
         unsigned long section_mem_map;
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
+/*
+ * Should we ever require GCC 4 or later then the flat array scheme
+ * can be eliminated and a uniform solution for EXTREME and !EXTREME can
+ * be arrived at.
+ */
+#define SECTION_ROOT_SHIFT      (PAGE_SHIFT-3)
+#define SECTION_ROOT_MASK       ((1UL<<SECTION_ROOT_SHIFT) - 1)
+#define SECTION_TO_ROOT(_sec)   ((_sec) >> SECTION_ROOT_SHIFT)
+#define NR_SECTION_ROOTS        (NR_MEM_SECTIONS >>  SECTION_ROOT_SHIFT)
+
+extern struct mem_section *mem_section[NR_SECTION_ROOTS];
+
+static inline struct mem_section *__nr_to_section(unsigned long nr)
+{
+        if (!mem_section[SECTION_TO_ROOT(nr)])
+                return NULL;
+        return &mem_section[SECTION_TO_ROOT(nr)][nr & SECTION_ROOT_MASK];
+}
+
+#else
+
 extern struct mem_section mem_section[NR_MEM_SECTIONS];
 
 static inline struct mem_section *__nr_to_section(unsigned long nr)
@@ -494,6 +516,10 @@ static inline struct mem_section *__nr_to_section(unsigned long nr)
         return &mem_section[nr];
 }
 
+#define sparse_index_init(_sec, _nid)  do {} while (0)
+
+#endif
+
 /*
  * We use the lower bits of the mem_map pointer to store
  * a little bit of information.  There should be at least
@@ -513,12 +539,12 @@ static inline struct page *__section_mem_map_addr(struct mem_section *section)
 
 static inline int valid_section(struct mem_section *section)
 {
-        return (section->section_mem_map & SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT);
+        return (section && (section->section_mem_map & SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT));
 }
 
 static inline int section_has_mem_map(struct mem_section *section)
 {
-        return (section->section_mem_map & SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP);
+        return (section && (section->section_mem_map & SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP));
 }
 
 static inline int valid_section_nr(unsigned long nr)