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arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model
authorMike Rapoport (Microsoft) <redacted>
Sun, 11 Jan 2026 08:20:58 +0000 (10:20 +0200)
committerAndrew Morton <redacted>
Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:02:18 +0000 (20:02 -0800)
commit4267739cabb82da75780c4699fe8208821929944
tree8b7c7b4640f1a69233468c8a5056875e08465a1f
parentd49004c5f0c140bb83c87fab46dcf449cf00eb24
arch, mm: consolidate initialization of SPARSE memory model

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) <redacted>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <redacted>
Cc: Alex Shi <redacted>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <redacted>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <redacted>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <redacted>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <redacted>
Cc: David S. Miller <redacted>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <redacted>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <redacted>
Cc: Guo Ren <redacted>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <redacted>
Cc: Helge Deller <redacted>
Cc: Huacai Chen <redacted>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <redacted>
Cc: Johannes Berg <redacted>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <redacted>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <redacted>
Cc: Klara Modin <redacted>
Cc: Liam Howlett <redacted>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <redacted>
Cc: Magnus Lindholm <redacted>
Cc: Matt Turner <redacted>
Cc: Max Filippov <redacted>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <redacted>
Cc: Michal Hocko <redacted>
Cc: Michal Simek <redacted>
Cc: Muchun Song <redacted>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <redacted>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <redacted>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <redacted>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <redacted>
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <redacted>
Cc: Russell King <redacted>
Cc: Stafford Horne <redacted>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <redacted>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <redacted>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <redacted>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <redacted>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <redacted>
Cc: Will Deacon <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <redacted>
21 files changed:
Documentation/mm/memory-model.rst
Documentation/translations/zh_CN/mm/memory-model.rst
arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c
arch/arm/mm/init.c
arch/arm64/mm/init.c
arch/csky/kernel/setup.c
arch/loongarch/kernel/setup.c
arch/mips/kernel/setup.c
arch/parisc/mm/init.c
arch/powerpc/include/asm/setup.h
arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
arch/powerpc/mm/numa.c
arch/riscv/mm/init.c
arch/s390/mm/init.c
arch/sh/mm/init.c
arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c
arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
include/linux/mmzone.h
mm/internal.h
mm/mm_init.c