From: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx> Only physical pages from a section can be guaranteed to be contiguous and so far a pageblock can only group contiguous physical pages by design. Set pageblock_order properly to prevent pageblock going beyond section size. Signed-off-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- include/linux/pageblock-flags.h | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/pageblock-flags.h b/include/linux/pageblock-flags.h index 973fd731a520..4277b4267767 100644 --- a/include/linux/pageblock-flags.h +++ b/include/linux/pageblock-flags.h @@ -44,8 +44,11 @@ extern unsigned int pageblock_order; #else /* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */ -/* If huge pages are not used, group by MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES */ -#define pageblock_order (MAX_ORDER-1) +/* + * If huge pages are not used, group by MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES or + * PAGES_PER_SECTION when MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES is larger. + */ +#define pageblock_order (min(PFN_SECTION_SHIFT, MAX_ORDER-1)) #endif /* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */ -- 2.30.2