The patch titled mm: fix free_all_bootmem_core alignment check has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-fix-free_all_bootmem_core-alignment-check.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: mm: fix free_all_bootmem_core alignment check From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> The check for node_boot_start is bogus because we start freeing at the corresponding pfn. So check if the pfn is properly aligned instead in a more readable way and adjust the documentation. Also remove an unneeded accounting variable. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/bootmem.c | 21 ++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/bootmem.c~mm-fix-free_all_bootmem_core-alignment-check mm/bootmem.c --- a/mm/bootmem.c~mm-fix-free_all_bootmem_core-alignment-check +++ a/mm/bootmem.c @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ static unsigned long __init free_all_boo struct page *page; unsigned long pfn; bootmem_data_t *bdata = pgdat->bdata; - unsigned long i, count, total = 0; + unsigned long i, count; unsigned long idx; unsigned long *map; int gofast = 0; @@ -389,10 +389,13 @@ static unsigned long __init free_all_boo pfn = PFN_DOWN(bdata->node_boot_start); idx = bdata->node_low_pfn - pfn; map = bdata->node_bootmem_map; - /* Check physaddr is O(LOG2(BITS_PER_LONG)) page aligned */ - if (bdata->node_boot_start == 0 || - ffs(bdata->node_boot_start) - PAGE_SHIFT > ffs(BITS_PER_LONG)) + /* + * Check if we are aligned to BITS_PER_LONG pages. If so, we might + * be able to free page orders of that size at once. + */ + if (!(pfn & (BITS_PER_LONG-1))) gofast = 1; + for (i = 0; i < idx; ) { unsigned long v = ~map[i / BITS_PER_LONG]; @@ -420,23 +423,19 @@ static unsigned long __init free_all_boo } pfn += BITS_PER_LONG; } - total += count; /* * Now free the allocator bitmap itself, it's not * needed anymore: */ page = virt_to_page(bdata->node_bootmem_map); - count = 0; idx = (get_mapsize(bdata) + PAGE_SIZE-1) >> PAGE_SHIFT; - for (i = 0; i < idx; i++, page++) { + for (i = 0; i < idx; i++, page++) __free_pages_bootmem(page, 0); - count++; - } - total += count; + count += i; bdata->node_bootmem_map = NULL; - return total; + return count; } unsigned long __init init_bootmem_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long freepfn, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch git-mips.patch parisc-remove-redundant-display-of-free-swap-space-in-show_mem.patch git-xtensa.patch mm-move-bootmem-descriptors-definition-to-a-single-place.patch mm-fix-free_all_bootmem_core-alignment-check.patch mm-normalize-internal-argument-passing-of-bootmem-data.patch mm-unexport-__alloc_bootmem_core.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html