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    mm/sparse.c: only use subsection map in VMEMMAP case · 0a9f9f62
    Baoquan He authored
    Currently, to support subsection aligned memory region adding for pmem,
    subsection map is added to track which subsection is present.
    
    However, config ZONE_DEVICE depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP.  It means
    subsection map only makes sense when SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP enabled.  For the
    classic sparse, it's meaningless.  Even worse, it may confuse people when
    checking code related to the classic sparse.
    
    About the classic sparse which doesn't support subsection hotplug, Dan
    said it's more because the effort and maintenance burden outweighs the
    benefit.  Besides, the current 64 bit ARCHes all enable
    SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE by default.
    
    Combining the above reasons, no need to provide subsection map and the
    relevant handling for the classic sparse.  Let's remove them.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBaoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
    Cc: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>
    Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200312124414.439-4-bhe@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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