deactivate_section checks whether a section is early or not in order to either call free_map_bootmem() or depopulate_section_memmap(). Being the former for sections added at boot time, and the latter for sections hotplugged. The problem is that we zero section_mem_map, so the last early_section() will always report false and the section will not be removed. Fix this checking whether a section is early or not at function entry. Fixes: mmotm ("mm/sparsemem: Support sub-section hotplug") Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> --- mm/sparse.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c index 3267c4001c6d..1e224149aab6 100644 --- a/mm/sparse.c +++ b/mm/sparse.c @@ -738,6 +738,7 @@ static void section_deactivate(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages, DECLARE_BITMAP(map, SUBSECTIONS_PER_SECTION) = { 0 }; DECLARE_BITMAP(tmp, SUBSECTIONS_PER_SECTION) = { 0 }; struct mem_section *ms = __pfn_to_section(pfn); + bool section_is_early = early_section(ms); struct page *memmap = NULL; unsigned long *subsection_map = ms->usage ? &ms->usage->subsection_map[0] : NULL; @@ -772,7 +773,7 @@ static void section_deactivate(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages, if (bitmap_empty(subsection_map, SUBSECTIONS_PER_SECTION)) { unsigned long section_nr = pfn_to_section_nr(pfn); - if (!early_section(ms)) { + if (!section_is_early) { kfree(ms->usage); ms->usage = NULL; } @@ -780,7 +781,7 @@ static void section_deactivate(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages, ms->section_mem_map = sparse_encode_mem_map(NULL, section_nr); } - if (early_section(ms) && memmap) + if (section_is_early && memmap) free_map_bootmem(memmap); else depopulate_section_memmap(pfn, nr_pages, altmap); -- 2.12.3