Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] x86/vmemmap: Drop handling of 1GB vmemmap ranges

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On 3/1/21 12:32 AM, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> We never get to allocate 1GB pages when mapping the vmemmap range.
> Drop the dead code both for the aligned and unaligned cases and leave
> only the direct map handling.

Could you elaborate a bit on why 1GB pages are never used?  It is just
unlikely to have a 64GB contiguous area of memory that needs 1GB of
contiguous vmemmap?  Or, does the fact that sections are smaller than
64GB keeps this from happening?





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