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Revision 07b4e2bc9c35ea88cbd36d806fcd5e3bcbf022be authored by Yinghai Lu on 11 July 2012, 21:02:51 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 11 July 2012, 23:04:49 UTC
Commit 238305bb4d41 ("mm: remove sparsemem allocation details from the
bootmem allocator") introduced a bug in the allocation goal calculation
that put section usemaps not in the same section as the node
descriptors, creating unnecessary hotplug dependencies between them:

  node 0 must be removed before remove section 16399
  node 1 must be removed before remove section 16399
  node 2 must be removed before remove section 16399
  node 3 must be removed before remove section 16399
  node 4 must be removed before remove section 16399
  node 5 must be removed before remove section 16399
  node 6 must be removed before remove section 16399

The reason is that it applies PAGE_SECTION_MASK to the physical address
of the node descriptor when finding a suitable place to put the usemap,
when this mask is actually intended to be used with PFNs.  Because the
PFN mask is wider, the target address will point beyond the wanted
section holding the node descriptor and the node must be offlined before
the section holding the usemap can go.

Fix this by extending the mask to address width before use.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tip revision: 07b4e2bc9c35ea88cbd36d806fcd5e3bcbf022be authored by Yinghai Lu on 11 July 2012, 21:02:51 UTC
mm: sparse: fix section usemap placement calculation
Tip revision: 07b4e2b
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