[PATCH v2] mm/sparse: keep mem_section_usage_size() internal

From: Muchun Song

Date: Tue Aug 04 2026 - 22:27:20 EST


mem_section_usage_size() is only needed by sparsemem implementation code
after commit ae751d567baa ("mm/bootmem_info: stop marking mem_section_usage
as MIX_SECTION_INFO"), so keeping the declaration in mmzone.h now exposes
the helper to all mmzone.h users for no reason.

Move the helper to sparse.h so sparse.c and sparse-vmemmap.c can share it
through the internal header. While doing so, calculate the allocation size
with struct_size_t(), which ties the expression to the pageblock_flags
trailing array instead of open-coding the struct header plus bitmap size.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- Mention that ae751d567baa removed the last external user (David)
- Use struct_size_t() for the mem_section_usage size calculation (David)
---
include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 -
mm/sparse.c | 10 ----------
mm/sparse.h | 6 ++++++
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index a26c8b855222..86891163e0ef 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -2070,7 +2070,6 @@ static inline struct mem_section *__nr_to_section(unsigned long nr)
#endif
return &mem_section[root][nr & SECTION_ROOT_MASK];
}
-extern size_t mem_section_usage_size(void);

/*
* We use the lower bits of the mem_map pointer to store a little bit of
diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index 704a9dec2b9a..46458e5300e2 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -213,16 +213,6 @@ static void __init memblocks_present(void)
memory_present(nid, start, end);
}

-static unsigned long usemap_size(void)
-{
- return BITS_TO_LONGS(SECTION_BLOCKFLAGS_BITS) * sizeof(unsigned long);
-}
-
-size_t mem_section_usage_size(void)
-{
- return sizeof(struct mem_section_usage) + usemap_size();
-}
-
#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
unsigned long __init section_map_size(void)
{
diff --git a/mm/sparse.h b/mm/sparse.h
index 95aa031213f2..3b744667a7e6 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.h
+++ b/mm/sparse.h
@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ static inline void __section_mark_present(struct mem_section *ms,

ms->section_mem_map |= SECTION_MARKED_PRESENT;
}
+
+static inline size_t mem_section_usage_size(void)
+{
+ return struct_size_t(struct mem_section_usage, pageblock_flags,
+ BITS_TO_LONGS(SECTION_BLOCKFLAGS_BITS));
+}
#else
static inline void sparse_init(void) {}
#endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM */
--
2.54.0