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authorMike Rapoport <[email protected]>2020-06-03 15:58:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2020-06-03 20:09:44 -0700
commit237e506cd5af254fbc3be560d57c29163133aaf6 (patch)
tree86a36cd83f523a4177f413269cbd755de4f6fdeb
parent8a1b25fe3ce49f7c0ad562fa294ac7f93731bd3a (diff)
docs/vm: update memory-models documentation
To reflect the updates to free_area_init() family of functions. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Tested-by: Hoan Tran <[email protected]> [arm64] Cc: Baoquan He <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Cain <[email protected]> Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> Cc: Greentime Hu <[email protected]> Cc: Greg Ungerer <[email protected]> Cc: Guan Xuetao <[email protected]> Cc: Guo Ren <[email protected]> Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]> Cc: Helge Deller <[email protected]> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <[email protected]> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> Cc: Ley Foon Tan <[email protected]> Cc: Mark Salter <[email protected]> Cc: Matt Turner <[email protected]> Cc: Max Filippov <[email protected]> Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]> Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]> Cc: Nick Hu <[email protected]> Cc: Paul Walmsley <[email protected]> Cc: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]> Cc: Rich Felker <[email protected]> Cc: Russell King <[email protected]> Cc: Stafford Horne <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <[email protected]> Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]> Cc: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email protected]> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst b/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst
index 58a12376b7df..91228044ed16 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst
+++ b/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst
@@ -46,11 +46,10 @@ maps the entire physical memory. For most architectures, the holes
have entries in the `mem_map` array. The `struct page` objects
corresponding to the holes are never fully initialized.
-To allocate the `mem_map` array, architecture specific setup code
-should call :c:func:`free_area_init_node` function or its convenience
-wrapper :c:func:`free_area_init`. Yet, the mappings array is not
-usable until the call to :c:func:`memblock_free_all` that hands all
-the memory to the page allocator.
+To allocate the `mem_map` array, architecture specific setup code should
+call :c:func:`free_area_init` function. Yet, the mappings array is not
+usable until the call to :c:func:`memblock_free_all` that hands all the
+memory to the page allocator.
If an architecture enables `CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL` option,
it may free parts of the `mem_map` array that do not cover the