alloc_usemap_and_memmap() is passing in a "void *" that points to usemap_map or memmap_map. In next patch we will change both of the map allocation from taking 'NR_MEM_SECTIONS' as the length to taking 'nr_present_sections' as the length. After that, the passed in 'void*' needs to update as things get consumed. But, it knows only the quantity of objects consumed and not the type. This effectively tells it enough about the type to let it update the pointer as objects are consumed. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/sparse.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c index 71ad53da2cd1..b2848cc6e32a 100644 --- a/mm/sparse.c +++ b/mm/sparse.c @@ -489,10 +489,12 @@ void __weak __meminit vmemmap_populate_print_last(void) /** * alloc_usemap_and_memmap - memory alloction for pageblock flags and vmemmap * @map: usemap_map for pageblock flags or mmap_map for vmemmap + * @unit_size: size of map unit */ static void __init alloc_usemap_and_memmap(void (*alloc_func) (void *, unsigned long, unsigned long, - unsigned long, int), void *data) + unsigned long, int), void *data, + int data_unit_size) { unsigned long pnum; unsigned long map_count; @@ -569,7 +571,8 @@ void __init sparse_init(void) if (!usemap_map) panic("can not allocate usemap_map\n"); alloc_usemap_and_memmap(sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node, - (void *)usemap_map); + (void *)usemap_map, + sizeof(usemap_map[0])); #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_ALLOC_MEM_MAP_TOGETHER size2 = sizeof(struct page *) * NR_MEM_SECTIONS; @@ -577,7 +580,8 @@ void __init sparse_init(void) if (!map_map) panic("can not allocate map_map\n"); alloc_usemap_and_memmap(sparse_early_mem_maps_alloc_node, - (void *)map_map); + (void *)map_map, + sizeof(map_map[0])); #endif for_each_present_section_nr(0, pnum) { -- 2.13.6