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83e3c48729 "mm/sparsemem: Allocate mem_section at runtime for CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME=y"
mem_section is allocated at runtime to save memory. While it allocates
the first dimension of array with sizeof(struct mem_section). It costs
extra memory, should be sizeof(struct mem_section*).
Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <ats-kumagai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
---
mm/sparse.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index 7a5dacaa06e3..2609aba121e8 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ void __init memory_present(int nid, unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
if (unlikely(!mem_section)) {
unsigned long size, align;
- size = sizeof(struct mem_section) * NR_SECTION_ROOTS;
+ size = sizeof(struct mem_section*) * NR_SECTION_ROOTS;
align = 1 << (INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT);
mem_section = memblock_virt_alloc(size, align);
}
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2.5.5
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