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2026-01-26arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory modelMike Rapoport (Microsoft)
Every architecture calls sparse_init() during setup_arch() although the data structures created by sparse_init() are not used until the initialization of the core MM. Beside the code duplication, calling sparse_init() from architecture specific code causes ordering differences of vmemmap and HVO initialization on different architectures. Move the call to sparse_init() from architecture specific code to free_area_init() to ensure that vmemmap and HVO initialization order is always the same. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260111082105.290734-25-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Klara Modin <klarasmodin@gmail.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@kernel.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-24mm/zone_device: rename page_free callback to folio_freeBalbir Singh
Change page_free to folio_free to make the folio support for zone device-private more consistent. The PCI P2PDMA callback has also been updated and changed to folio_free() as a result. For drivers that do not support folios (yet), the folio is converted back into page via &folio->page and the page is used as is, in the current callback implementation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251001065707.920170-3-balbirs@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com> Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com> Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com> Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch> Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Cc: Mika Penttilä <mpenttil@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com> Cc: Francois Dugast <francois.dugast@intel.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-02-02docs/mm: remove useless markupMike Rapoport (IBM)
It is enough to use a file name to cross-reference another rst document. Jon says: The right things will happen in the HTML output, readers of the plain-text will know immediately where to go, and we don't have to add the label clutter. Drop reference markup and unnecessary labels and use plain file names. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230201094156.991542-3-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-06-27docs: rename Documentation/vm to Documentation/mmMike Rapoport
so it will be consistent with code mm directory and with Documentation/admin-guide/mm and won't be confused with virtual machines. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Tested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Acked-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>