remove zone_mem_map [1/4] remove zone_mem_map.
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RFC PATCH 1/1 remove zone_mem_map [1/4] remove zone_mem_map.
This patch removes zone->zone_mem_map.
Againt 2.6.16-rc1.
Because of SPARSEMEM's cleanup, there are no codes which touches zone->zone_mem_map directly.
My purpose is:
Reduce the assumptions of zones. Because of zone_mem_map, zone is considered to have contiguous mem_map. This patch removes that needless? assumption.
I'll try to remove zone_start_pfn etc.. if I can go ahead.
This patch affects many archs which has NUMA, so enough tests should be done. But I don't have test environments...
Please notify me if the kernel cannot be compiled or perfomance goes down because of this patch.
Sigh, binary modules which uses page_to_pfn() will not work either ;)
include/linux/mmzone.h +0 -1
@@ -212,7 +212,6 @@ struct zone {* Discontig memory support fields. */ struct pglist_data *zone_pgdat; -struct page *zone_mem_map;/* zone_start_pfn == zone_start_paddr >> PAGE_SHIFT */ unsigned long zone_start_pfn;
mm/page_alloc.c +0 -1
@@ -2009,7 +2009,6 @@ static __meminit void init_currently_empzone_wait_table_init (zone, size); pgdat->nr_zones =zone_idx (zone) +1 ; - zone->zone_mem_map =pfn_to_page (zone_start_pfn); zone->zone_start_pfn = zone_start_pfn;memmap_init (size, pgdat->node_id,zone_idx (zone), zone_start_pfn);
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