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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] mm/sparsemem: Fix a bug in free_map_bootmem when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
Hello wanpeng,

On 10/05/2013 01:54 PM, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> Hi Yanfei,
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 11:32:02AM +0800, Zhang Yanfei wrote:
>> From: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
>>
>> We pass the number of pages which hold page structs of a memory
>> section to function free_map_bootmem. This is right when
>> !CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP but wrong when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP.
>> When CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, we should pass the number of pages
>> of a memory section to free_map_bootmem.
>>
>> So the fix is removing the nr_pages parameter. When
>> CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, we directly use the prefined marco
>> PAGES_PER_SECTION in free_map_bootmem. When !CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP,
>> we calculate page numbers needed to hold the page structs for a
>> memory section and use the value in free_map_bootmem.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
>> ---
>> mm/sparse.c | 17 +++++++----------
>> 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
>> index fbb9dbc..908c134 100644
>> --- a/mm/sparse.c
>> +++ b/mm/sparse.c
>> @@ -603,10 +603,10 @@ static void __kfree_section_memmap(struct page *memmap)
>> vmemmap_free(start, end);
>> }
>> #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
>> -static void free_map_bootmem(struct page *memmap, unsigned long nr_pages)
>> +static void free_map_bootmem(struct page *memmap)
>> {
>> unsigned long start = (unsigned long)memmap;
>> - unsigned long end = (unsigned long)(memmap + nr_pages);
>> + unsigned long end = (unsigned long)(memmap + PAGES_PER_SECTION);
>>
>> vmemmap_free(start, end);
>> }
>> @@ -648,11 +648,13 @@ static void __kfree_section_memmap(struct page *memmap)
>> }
>>
>> #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
>> -static void free_map_bootmem(struct page *memmap, unsigned long nr_pages)
>> +static void free_map_bootmem(struct page *memmap)
>> {
>> unsigned long maps_section_nr, removing_section_nr, i;
>> unsigned long magic;
>> struct page *page = virt_to_page(memmap);
>> + unsigned long nr_pages = get_order(sizeof(struct page) *
>> + PAGES_PER_SECTION);
>
> Why replace PAGE_ALIGN(XXX) >> PAGE_SHIFT by get_order(XXX)? This will result
> in memory leak.

oops... I will correct this by sending a new version.

Thanks.


--
Thanks.
Zhang Yanfei


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