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If we always align the vmemmap start to PAGE_SIZE, there is a
chance that we may end up allocating page-sized vmemmap backing
pages in RAM in the altmap not present case, because a PAGE_SIZE
aligned address is not PMD_SIZE-aligned.
In this patch, we are aligning the vmemmap start address to
PMD_SIZE if altmap is not present. This ensures that a PMD_SIZE
page is always allocated for the vmemmap mapping if altmap is
not present.
If altmap is present, Make sure we align the start vmemmap addr to
PAGE_SIZE so that we calculate the correct start_pfn in altmap
boundary check to decide whether we should use altmap or RAM based
backing memory allocation. Also the address need to be aligned for
set_pte operation. If the start addr is already PMD_SIZE aligned
and with in the altmap boundary then we will try to use a pmd size
altmap mapping else we go for page size mapping.
So if altmap is present, we try to use the maximum number of
altmap pages; otherwise, we allocate a PMD_SIZE RAM page.
Signed-off-by: Donet Tom <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/895c4afd912c85d344a2065e348fac90529ed48f.1750593372.git.donettom@linux.ibm.com
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