Possible partial miss in pages needed for zone's memory map?

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Sat May 17 2008 - 08:19:44 EST


Hi,

I stumbled over the following in the zone initialization code. Please
let me know if I overlooked something here.

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From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH] Don't drop a partial page in a zone's memory map size

In a zone's present pages number, account for all pages occupied by the
memory map, including a partial.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -3378,7 +3378,8 @@ static void __paginginit free_area_init_
* is used by this zone for memmap. This affects the watermark
* and per-cpu initialisations
*/
- memmap_pages = (size * sizeof(struct page)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ memmap_pages =
+ PAGE_ALIGN(size * sizeof(struct page)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
if (realsize >= memmap_pages) {
realsize -= memmap_pages;
printk(KERN_DEBUG
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