after | From 99ab7b19440a72ebdf225f99b20f8ef40decee86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 | Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:02:53 -0700 | Subject: [PATCH] mm: sparse: fix usemap allocation above node descriptor section Johannes said: | while backporting the below patch, I realised that your fix busted | f5bf18fa22f8 again. The problem was not a panicking version on | allocation failure but when the usemap size was too large such that | goal + size > limit triggers the BUG_ON in the bootmem allocator. So | we need a version that passes limit ONLY if the usemap is smaller than | the section. after checking the code, the name of ___alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() does not reflect the fact. Make bootmem really not panic. Hope will kill bootmem sooner. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- mm/bootmem.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6/mm/bootmem.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/bootmem.c +++ linux-2.6/mm/bootmem.c @@ -710,6 +710,10 @@ again: if (ptr) return ptr; + /* do not panic in alloc_bootmem_bdata() */ + if (limit && goal + size > limit) + limit = 0; + ptr = alloc_bootmem_bdata(pgdat->bdata, size, align, goal, limit); if (ptr) return ptr; -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>