For early sections, we assumes its memmap will never be partially removed. But current behavior breaks this. Let's correct it. Fixes: ba72b4c8cf60 ("mm/sparsemem: support sub-section hotplug") Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/sparse.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c index b2b9a3e34696..1a0069f492f5 100644 --- a/mm/sparse.c +++ b/mm/sparse.c @@ -825,10 +825,10 @@ static void section_deactivate(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages, ms->section_mem_map &= ~SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP; } - if (section_is_early && memmap) - free_map_bootmem(memmap); - else + if (!section_is_early) depopulate_section_memmap(pfn, nr_pages, altmap); + else if (memmap) + free_map_bootmem(memmap); if (empty) ms->section_mem_map = (unsigned long)NULL; -- 2.20.1 (Apple Git-117)