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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst b/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst index cc65bc85d260..769449734573 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst @@ -141,11 +141,8 @@ sections: `mem_section` objects and the number of rows is calculated to fit all the memory sections. -The architecture setup code should call :c:func:`memory_present` for -each active memory range or use :c:func:`memblocks_present` or -:c:func:`sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions` wrappers to -initialize the memory sections. Next, the actual memory maps should be -set up using :c:func:`sparse_init`. +The architecture setup code should call sparse_init() to +initialize the memory sections and the memory maps. With SPARSEMEM there are two possible ways to convert a PFN to the corresponding `struct page` - a "classic sparse" and "sparse @@ -178,7 +175,7 @@ for persistent memory devices in pre-allocated storage on those devices. This storage is represented with :c:type:`struct vmem_altmap` that is eventually passed to vmemmap_populate() through a long chain of function calls. The vmemmap_populate() implementation may use the -`vmem_altmap` along with :c:func:`altmap_alloc_block_buf` helper to +`vmem_altmap` along with :c:func:`vmemmap_alloc_block_buf` helper to allocate memory map on the persistent memory device. ZONE_DEVICE |