On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 11:30:42AM +0200, Alexander A Sverdlin wrote:
> From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Commit c46173183657 ("MIPS: Add NUMA support for Loongson-3") has increased
> .bss size of the Octeon kernel from 16k to 16M. Providing the conditions
> for SPARSEMEM_EXTREME avoids the waste of memory.
>
> Thomas has tested the loogsoon64 kernel, where .bss is being reduced by
> this patch from 16.5M to 515k.
>
> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/mips/Kconfig | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
> index ec21f89..25dd4c5 100644
> --- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
> @@ -2669,7 +2669,6 @@ config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
>
> config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
> bool
> - select SPARSEMEM_STATIC if !SGI_IP27
>
> config NUMA
> bool "NUMA Support"
> --
> 2.10.2
thank for the change, applied to mips-fixes.
Thomas.
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