When we use SPARSEMEM instead of SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, pfn_to_page() doesn't work before sparse_init_one_section() is called. This leads to a crash when hotplug memory. We should use memmap as it did. Fixes: ba72b4c8cf60 ("mm/sparsemem: support sub-section hotplug") Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> --- mm/sparse.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c index 5a8599041a2a..2efb24ff8f96 100644 --- a/mm/sparse.c +++ b/mm/sparse.c @@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ int __meminit sparse_add_section(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn, * Poison uninitialized struct pages in order to catch invalid flags * combinations. */ - page_init_poison(pfn_to_page(start_pfn), sizeof(struct page) * nr_pages); + page_init_poison(memmap, sizeof(struct page) * nr_pages); ms = __nr_to_section(section_nr); set_section_nid(section_nr, nid); -- 2.17.1