alpha: switch from DISCONTIGMEM to SPARSEMEM

Patch series "arch, mm: deprecate DISCONTIGMEM", v2.

It's been a while since DISCONTIGMEM is generally considered deprecated,
but it is still used by four architectures.  This set replaces
DISCONTIGMEM with a different way to handle holes in the memory map and
marks DISCONTIGMEM configuration as BROKEN in Kconfigs of these
architectures with the intention to completely remove it in several
releases.

While for 64-bit alpha and ia64 the switch to SPARSEMEM is quite obvious
and was a matter of moving some bits around, for smaller 32-bit arc and
m68k SPARSEMEM is not necessarily the best thing to do.

On 32-bit machines SPARSEMEM would require large sections to make section
index fit in the page flags, but larger sections mean that more memory is
wasted for unused memory map.

Besides, pfn_to_page() and page_to_pfn() become less efficient, at least
on arc.

So I've decided to generalize arm's approach for freeing of unused parts
of the memory map with FLATMEM and enable it for both arc and m68k.  The
details are in the description of patches 10 (arc) and 13 (m68k).

This patch (of 13):

Enable SPARSEMEM support on alpha and deprecate DISCONTIGMEM.

The required changes are mostly around moving duplicated definitions of
page access and address conversion macros to a common place and making sure
they are available for all memory models.

The DISCONTINGMEM support is marked as BROKEN an will be removed in a
couple of releases.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201101170454.9567-1-rppt@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201101170454.9567-2-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/alpha/Kconfig b/arch/alpha/Kconfig
index d6e9fc7a7b19..aedf5c296f13 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/alpha/Kconfig
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ config ALPHA
 	select CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS if !ALPHA_EV67
 	select MMU_GATHER_NO_RANGE
 	select SET_FS
+	select SPARSEMEM_EXTREME if SPARSEMEM
 	help
 	  The Alpha is a 64-bit general-purpose processor designed and
 	  marketed by the Digital Equipment Corporation of blessed memory,
@@ -551,12 +552,19 @@ config NR_CPUS
 
 config ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
 	bool "Discontiguous Memory Support"
+	depends on BROKEN
 	help
 	  Say Y to support efficient handling of discontiguous physical memory,
 	  for architectures which are either NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access)
 	  or have huge holes in the physical address space for other reasons.
 	  See <file:Documentation/vm/numa.rst> for more.
 
+config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
+	bool "Sparse Memory Support"
+	help
+	  Say Y to support efficient handling of discontiguous physical memory,
+	  for systems that have huge holes in the physical address space.
+
 config NUMA
 	bool "NUMA Support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
 	depends on DISCONTIGMEM && BROKEN