The patch titled
Subject: mm: sparse: fix section usemap placement calculation
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-sparse-fix-section-usemap-placement-calculation.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: sparse: fix section usemap placement calculation
238305b ("mm: remove sparsemem allocation details from the bootmem
allocator") introduced a bug in the allocation goal calculation that put
section usemaps not in the same section as the node descriptors, creating
unnecessary hotplug dependencies between them:
[ 0.000000] node 0 must be removed before remove section 16399
[ 0.000000] node 1 must be removed before remove section 16399
[ 0.000000] node 2 must be removed before remove section 16399
[ 0.000000] node 3 must be removed before remove section 16399
[ 0.000000] node 4 must be removed before remove section 16399
[ 0.000000] node 5 must be removed before remove section 16399
[ 0.000000] node 6 must be removed before remove section 16399
The reason is that it applies PAGE_SECTION_MASK to the physical address of
the node descriptor when finding a suitable place to put the usemap, when
this mask is actually intended to be used with PFNs. Because the PFN mask
is wider, the target address will point beyond the wanted section holding
the node descriptor and the node must be offlined before the section
holding the usemap can go.
Fix this by extending the mask to address width before use.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/sparse.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN mm/sparse.c~mm-sparse-fix-section-usemap-placement-calculation mm/sparse.c
--- a/mm/sparse.c~mm-sparse-fix-section-usemap-placement-calculation
+++ a/mm/sparse.c
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_pgdat_section
* from the same section as the pgdat where possible to avoid
* this problem.
*/
- goal = __pa(pgdat) & PAGE_SECTION_MASK;
+ goal = __pa(pgdat) & (PAGE_SECTION_MASK << PAGE_SHIFT);
host_pgdat = NODE_DATA(early_pfn_to_nid(goal >> PAGE_SHIFT));
return __alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(host_pgdat, size,
SMP_CACHE_BYTES, goal);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
mm-memblockc-memblock_double_array-cosmetic-cleanups.patch
mm-setup-pageblock_order-before-its-used-by-sparsemem.patch
mm-hotplug-correctly-setup-fallback-zonelists-when-creating-new-pgdat.patch
mm-hotplug-correctly-add-new-zone-to-all-other-nodes-zone-lists.patch
mm-hotplug-free-zone-pageset-when-a-zone-becomes-empty.patch
mm-hotplug-mark-memory-hotplug-code-in-page_allocc-as-__meminit.patch
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