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Enable CONFIG_MIPS_AUTO_PFN_OFFSET for the generic platform, allowing it to avoid wasted book-keeping for pages with addresses lower than the physical base address of memory. This has a minimal impact on kernel text size, with 64r6el_defconfig gaining 0.1% in size as reported by bloat-o-meter: add/remove: 4/1 grow/shrink: 345/13 up/down: 9017/-392 (8625) Function old new delta pcpu_setup_first_chunk 1444 1780 +336 pcpu_alloc_first_chunk 864 1136 +272 start_kernel 1064 1288 +224 initcall_blacklist 224 372 +148 try_fill_recv 2088 2184 +96 ... Total: Before=8457273, After=8465898, chg +0.10% The gain for systems with large offsets to physical memory & the ability to continue using generic kernels on such systems seems well worth this small cost. Signed-off-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com> Suggested-by: Vladimir Kondratiev <vladimir.kondratiev@intel.com> Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/20049/ Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
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