Instead of leaving a hidden trap for the next person who comes along and wants to add something to mem_section, add a big fat warning about it needing to be a power-of-2, and insert a BUILD_BUG_ON() in sparse_init() to catch mistakes. Right now non-power-of-2 mem_sections cause a number of WARNs at boot (which don't clearly point to the size of mem_section as an issue), but the system limps on (temporarily, at least). This is based upon Dave Hansen's earlier RFC where he ran into the same issue: "sparsemem: fix boot when SECTIONS_PER_ROOT is not power-of-2" http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1205.2/03077.html Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Dave: Consider it resurrected. --- include/linux/mmzone.h | 4 ++++ mm/sparse.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 131989a..88e23f3 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -1127,6 +1127,10 @@ struct mem_section { struct page_cgroup *page_cgroup; unsigned long pad; #endif + /* + * WARNING: mem_section must be a power-of-2 in size for the + * calculation and use of SECTION_ROOT_MASK to make sense. + */ }; #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c index 1c91f0d3..3194ec4 100644 --- a/mm/sparse.c +++ b/mm/sparse.c @@ -481,6 +481,9 @@ void __init sparse_init(void) struct page **map_map; #endif + /* see include/linux/mmzone.h 'struct mem_section' definition */ + BUILD_BUG_ON(!is_power_of_2(sizeof(struct mem_section))); + /* Setup pageblock_order for HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE */ set_pageblock_order(); -- 1.8.3 -- 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>