mm/sparse: remove CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG-specific usemap allocation handling

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In 2008, we added through commit 48c906823f ("memory hotplug: allocate
usemap on the section with pgdat") quite some complexity to try allocating
memory for the "usemap" (storing pageblock information per memory section)
for a memory section close to the memory of the "pgdat" of the node.

The goal was to make memory hotunplug of boot memory more likely to
succeed.  That commit also added some checks for circular dependencies
between two memory sections, whereby two memory sections would contain
each others usemap, turning both boot memory sections un-removable.

However, in 2010, commit a4322e1bad ("sparsemem: Put usemap for one node
together") started allocating the usemap for multiple memory sections on
the same node in one chunk, effectively grouping all usemap allocations of
the same node in a single memblock allocation.

We don't really give guarantees about memory hotunplug of boot memory, and
with the change in 2010, it is impossible in practice to get any circular
dependencies.

So let's simply remove this complexity.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260320-sparsemem_cleanups-v2-10-096addc8800d@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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David Hildenbrand (Arm) 2026-03-20 23:13:42 +01:00 • committed by Andrew Morton

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