[PATCH v2 34/69] mm/sparse: Inline usemap allocation into sparse_init_nid()

From: Muchun Song

Date: Wed May 13 2026 - 09:21:11 EST


After removing SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_PREINIT, sparse_init_nid() no longer
needs the transient sparse_usagebuf state and its helper wrappers.

Allocate the usemap buffer directly in sparse_init_nid(), pass it to
sparse_init_one_section(), and drop sparse_usage_init(),
sparse_usage_fini(), and sparse_init_early_section().

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/mmzone.h | 3 ---
mm/sparse.c | 46 +++++++-----------------------------------
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index b9baef8cca91..a60fd5785fa5 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -2265,9 +2265,6 @@ static inline bool section_vmemmap_optimizable(const struct mem_section *section
return section_order(section) >= OPTIMIZABLE_FOLIO_MIN_ORDER;
}

-void sparse_init_early_section(int nid, struct page *map, unsigned long pnum,
- unsigned long flags);
-
#ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID
/**
* pfn_valid - check if there is a valid memory map entry for a PFN
diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index eab37504819d..54c38ea08190 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -237,42 +237,6 @@ void __weak __meminit vmemmap_populate_print_last(void)
{
}

-static void *sparse_usagebuf __meminitdata;
-static void *sparse_usagebuf_end __meminitdata;
-
-/*
- * Helper function that is used for generic section initialization, and
- * can also be used by any hooks added above.
- */
-void __init sparse_init_early_section(int nid, struct page *map,
- unsigned long pnum, unsigned long flags)
-{
- BUG_ON(!sparse_usagebuf || sparse_usagebuf >= sparse_usagebuf_end);
- sparse_init_one_section(__nr_to_section(pnum), pnum, map,
- sparse_usagebuf, SECTION_IS_EARLY | flags);
- sparse_usagebuf = (void *)sparse_usagebuf + mem_section_usage_size();
-}
-
-static int __init sparse_usage_init(int nid, unsigned long map_count)
-{
- unsigned long size;
-
- size = mem_section_usage_size() * map_count;
- sparse_usagebuf = memblock_alloc_node(size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, nid);
- if (!sparse_usagebuf) {
- sparse_usagebuf_end = NULL;
- return -ENOMEM;
- }
-
- sparse_usagebuf_end = sparse_usagebuf + size;
- return 0;
-}
-
-static void __init sparse_usage_fini(void)
-{
- sparse_usagebuf = sparse_usagebuf_end = NULL;
-}
-
int __meminit section_nr_vmemmap_pages(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
struct vmem_altmap *altmap, struct dev_pagemap *pgmap)
{
@@ -312,8 +276,11 @@ static void __init sparse_init_nid(int nid, unsigned long pnum_begin,
unsigned long map_count)
{
unsigned long pnum;
+ struct mem_section_usage *usage;

- if (sparse_usage_init(nid, map_count))
+ usage = memblock_alloc_node(map_count * mem_section_usage_size(),
+ SMP_CACHE_BYTES, nid);
+ if (!usage)
panic("Failed to allocate usemap for node %d\n", nid);

for_each_present_section_nr(pnum_begin, pnum) {
@@ -329,9 +296,10 @@ static void __init sparse_init_nid(int nid, unsigned long pnum_begin,
panic("Failed to allocate memmap for section %lu\n", pnum);
memmap_boot_pages_add(section_nr_vmemmap_pages(pfn, PAGES_PER_SECTION,
NULL, NULL));
- sparse_init_early_section(nid, map, pnum, 0);
+ sparse_init_one_section(__nr_to_section(pnum), pnum, map, usage,
+ SECTION_IS_EARLY);
+ usage = (void *)usage + mem_section_usage_size();
}
- sparse_usage_fini();
}

/*
--
2.54.0