Re: [Patch 002/005](memory hotplug) align memmap to page size

From: Andy Whitcroft
Date: Mon Jun 16 2008 - 06:27:58 EST


On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 09:46:19PM +0900, Yasunori Goto wrote:
> 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>
>
> ---
> mm/sparse.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> Index: current/mm/sparse.c
> ===================================================================
> --- current.orig/mm/sparse.c 2008-04-07 19:18:50.000000000 +0900
> +++ current/mm/sparse.c 2008-04-07 20:08:13.000000000 +0900
> @@ -265,8 +265,8 @@
> 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 */

Ahh ok, we do makes sure the mmap uses up the rest of the space. That
though is a shame as we cannot slip the usemap in the end of the space
any more (assuming we could).

-apw
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