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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] mm: factor out next_present_section_nr()
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:52:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200114155258.kww5ve7agifxxtoy@box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4de17591-e2c4-daff-e4b2-d03dd8792d0f@redhat.com>

On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 11:49:19AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> memmap_init_zone() is called for a physical memory region: pfn + size
> (nr_pages)
> 
> The highest possible PFN you can have is "-1(unsigned long) >>
> PFN_SHIFT". So even if you would want to add the very last section, the
> PFN would still be smaller than -1UL << PFN_SECTION_SHIFT.

PFN_SHIFT? I guess you mean PAGE_SHIFT.

Of course PFN can be more than -1UL >> PAGE_SHIFT. Like on 32-bit x86 with
PAE it is ((1ULL << 36) - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT. That's the whole reason for
PAE.

The highest possible PFN must fit into phys_addr_t when shifted left by
PAGE_SHIFT and must fit into unsigned long. It's can be -1UL if
phys_addr_t is 64-bit.

Any other limitation I miss?

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov


  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-14 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-13 14:40 [PATCH v1 0/2] mm/page_alloc: memmap_init_zone() cleanups David Hildenbrand
2020-01-13 14:40 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] mm/page_alloc: fix and rework pfn handling in memmap_init_zone() David Hildenbrand
2020-02-03 21:35   ` Alexander Duyck
2020-02-03 21:44     ` David Hildenbrand
2020-02-03 23:17       ` Alexander Duyck
2020-02-04  8:40         ` David Hildenbrand
2020-01-13 14:40 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] mm: factor out next_present_section_nr() David Hildenbrand
2020-01-13 22:41   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-01-13 22:57     ` David Hildenbrand
2020-01-13 23:02       ` David Hildenbrand
2020-01-14 10:41         ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2020-01-14 10:49           ` David Hildenbrand
2020-01-14 15:52             ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2020-01-14 16:50               ` David Hildenbrand
2020-01-14 16:52                 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-01-31  4:30 ` [PATCH v1 0/2] mm/page_alloc: memmap_init_zone() cleanups Andrew Morton
2020-02-03 14:49   ` Kirill A. Shutemov

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