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-rw-r--r--mm/sparse.c32
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index 98d6b39c347..458109b99e6 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -304,22 +304,48 @@ void __init sparse_init(void)
unsigned long pnum;
struct page *map;
unsigned long *usemap;
+ unsigned long **usemap_map;
+ int size;
+
+ /*
+ * map is using big page (aka 2M in x86 64 bit)
+ * usemap is less one page (aka 24 bytes)
+ * so alloc 2M (with 2M align) and 24 bytes in turn will
+ * make next 2M slip to one more 2M later.
+ * then in big system, the memory will have a lot of holes...
+ * here try to allocate 2M pages continously.
+ *
+ * powerpc need to call sparse_init_one_section right after each
+ * sparse_early_mem_map_alloc, so allocate usemap_map at first.
+ */
+ size = sizeof(unsigned long *) * NR_MEM_SECTIONS;
+ usemap_map = alloc_bootmem(size);
+ if (!usemap_map)
+ panic("can not allocate usemap_map\n");
for (pnum = 0; pnum < NR_MEM_SECTIONS; pnum++) {
if (!present_section_nr(pnum))
continue;
+ usemap_map[pnum] = sparse_early_usemap_alloc(pnum);
+ }
- map = sparse_early_mem_map_alloc(pnum);
- if (!map)
+ for (pnum = 0; pnum < NR_MEM_SECTIONS; pnum++) {
+ if (!present_section_nr(pnum))
continue;
- usemap = sparse_early_usemap_alloc(pnum);
+ usemap = usemap_map[pnum];
if (!usemap)
continue;
+ map = sparse_early_mem_map_alloc(pnum);
+ if (!map)
+ continue;
+
sparse_init_one_section(__nr_to_section(pnum), pnum, map,
usemap);
}
+
+ free_bootmem(__pa(usemap_map), size);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG