Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] mm/sparse.c: allocate memmap preferring the given node

[Pankaj Gupta]

> When allocating memmap for hot added memory with the classic sparse, the
> specified 'nid' is ignored in populate_section_memmap().
>
> While in allocating memmap for the classic sparse during boot, the node
> given by 'nid' is preferred. And VMEMMAP prefers the node of 'nid' in
> both boot stage and memory hot adding. So seems no reason to not respect
> the node of 'nid' for the classic sparse when hot adding memory.
>
> Use kvmalloc_node instead to use the passed in 'nid'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  mm/sparse.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
> index 3fa407d7f70a..31dcdfb55c72 100644
> --- a/mm/sparse.c
> +++ b/mm/sparse.c
> @@ -719,8 +719,8 @@ static int fill_subsection_map(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages)
>  struct page * __meminit populate_section_memmap(unsigned long pfn,
>                 unsigned long nr_pages, int nid, struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
>  {
> -       return kvmalloc(array_size(sizeof(struct page),
> -                                  PAGES_PER_SECTION), GFP_KERNEL);
> +       return kvmalloc_node(array_size(sizeof(struct page),
> +                                       PAGES_PER_SECTION), GFP_KERNEL, nid);
>  }
>
>  static void depopulate_section_memmap(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
> --

Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@xxxxxxxxx>

> 2.17.2
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