On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 3:17 PM Wei Yang <richardw.yang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > memmap should be the physical address to page struct instead of virtual > address to pfn. > > Since we call this only for SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, pfn_to_page() is valid at > this point. > > 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 b5da121bdd6e..56816f653588 100644 > --- a/mm/sparse.c > +++ b/mm/sparse.c > @@ -888,7 +888,7 @@ int __meminit sparse_add_section(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn, > /* Align memmap to section boundary in the subsection case */ > if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP) && > section_nr_to_pfn(section_nr) != start_pfn) > - memmap = pfn_to_kaddr(section_nr_to_pfn(section_nr)); > + memmap = pfn_to_page(section_nr_to_pfn(section_nr)); Yes, this looks obviously correct. This might be tripping up makedumpfile. Do you see any practical effects of this bug? The kernel mostly avoids ->section_mem_map in the vmemmap case and in the !vmemmap case section_nr_to_pfn(section_nr) should always equal start_pfn.