arm64: add ARM64-specific support for flatmem
authorNikunj Kela <nkela@cisco.com>
Fri, 6 Jul 2018 17:47:24 +0000 (10:47 -0700)
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Mon, 9 Jul 2018 11:57:25 +0000 (12:57 +0100)
Flatmem is useful in reducing kernel memory usage.
One usecase is in kdump kernel. We are able to save
~14M by moving to flatmem scheme.

Cc: xe-kernel@external.cisco.com
Cc: Nikunj Kela <nkela@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikunj Kela <nkela@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
arch/arm64/Kconfig

index 476de9b..c548b3d 100644 (file)
@@ -786,6 +786,9 @@ config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_DEFAULT
 config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
        def_bool ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
 
+config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
+       def_bool y
+
 config HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID
        def_bool ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL || !SPARSEMEM