The patch titled
memory hotplug: align memmap to page size
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
memory-hotplug-align-memmap-to-page-size.patch
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Subject: memory hotplug: align memmap to page size
From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To free memmap easier, this patch aligns it to page size. Bootmem allocater
may mix some objects in one pages. It's not good for freeing memmap of memory
hot-remove.
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/sparse.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/sparse.c~memory-hotplug-align-memmap-to-page-size mm/sparse.c
--- a/mm/sparse.c~memory-hotplug-align-memmap-to-page-size
+++ a/mm/sparse.c
@@ -263,8 +263,8 @@ struct page __init *sparse_mem_map_popul
if (map)
return map;
- map = alloc_bootmem_node(NODE_DATA(nid),
- sizeof(struct page) * PAGES_PER_SECTION);
+ map = alloc_bootmem_pages_node(NODE_DATA(nid),
+ PAGE_ALIGN(sizeof(struct page) * PAGES_PER_SECTION));
return map;
}
#endif /* !CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP */
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from y-goto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
hotplug-memory-remove-generic-__remove_pages-support.patch
powerpc-hotplug-memory-notifications-for-ppc.patch
powerpc-update-lmb-for-hotplug-memory-add-remove.patch
powerpc-provide-walk_memory_resource-for-ppc.patch
block-fix-memory-hotplug-and-bouncing-in-block-layer.patch
mm-make-mem_map-allocation-continuous-v2.patch
mm-fix-alloc_bootmem_core-to-use-fast-searching-for-all-nodes.patch
mm-offset-align-in-alloc_bootmem.patch
mm-make-reserve_bootmem-can-crossed-the-nodes.patch
memory-hotplug-register-section-node-id-to-free.patch
memory-hotplug-align-memmap-to-page-size.patch
memory-hotplug-make-alloc_bootmem_section.patch
memory-hotplugallocate-usemap-on-the-section-with-pgdat.patch
memory-hotplug-free-memmaps-allocated-by-bootmem.patch
ipc-scale-msgmni-to-the-amount-of-lowmem.patch
ipc-scale-msgmni-to-the-number-of-ipc-namespaces.patch
ipc-define-the-slab_memory_callback-priority-as-a-constant.patch
ipc-recompute-msgmni-on-memory-add--remove.patch
ipc-invoke-the-ipcns-notifier-chain-as-a-work-item.patch
ipc-recompute-msgmni-on-ipc-namespace-creation-removal.patch
ipc-do-not-recompute-msgmni-anymore-if-explicitly-set-by-user.patch
ipc-re-enable-msgmni-automatic-recomputing-msgmni-if-set-to-negative.patch
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