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mm: sparse: fix usemap allocation above node descriptor section

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After commit f5bf18fa22 ("bootmem/sparsemem: remove limit constraint
in alloc_bootmem_section"), usemap allocations may easily be placed
outside the optimal section that holds the node descriptor, even if
there is space available in that section.  This results in unnecessary
hotplug dependencies that need to have the node unplugged before the
section holding the usemap.

The reason is that the bootmem allocator doesn't guarantee a linear
search starting from the passed allocation goal but may start out at a
much higher address absent an upper limit.

Fix this by trying the allocation with the limit at the section end,
then retry without if that fails.  This keeps the fix from f5bf18fa22
of not panicking if the allocation does not fit in the section, but
still makes sure to try to stay within the section at first.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.3.x, 3.4.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Yinghai Lu
2012-07-11 14:02:53 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 07b4e2bc9c
commit 99ab7b1944
4 changed files with 20 additions and 7 deletions
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@@ -91,6 +91,11 @@ extern void *__alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pg_data_t *pgdat,
unsigned long size,
unsigned long align,
unsigned long goal);
void *___alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic(pg_data_t *pgdat,
unsigned long size,
unsigned long align,
unsigned long goal,
unsigned long limit);
extern void *__alloc_bootmem_low(unsigned long size,
unsigned long align,
unsigned long goal);