Commit 9ae49fab authored by David Rientjes's avatar David Rientjes Committed by Linus Torvalds

mm: slab-allocate memory section nodemask for large systems

Nodemasks should not be allocated on the stack for large systems (when it
is larger than 256 bytes) since there is a threat of overflow.

This patch causes the unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes() nodemask to be
allocated on the stack for smaller systems and be allocated by slab for
larger systems.

GFP_KERNEL is used since remove_memory_block() can block.

Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent caed0f48
......@@ -363,12 +363,16 @@ int register_mem_sect_under_node(struct memory_block *mem_blk, int nid)
/* unregister memory section under all nodes that it spans */
int unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes(struct memory_block *mem_blk)
{
nodemask_t unlinked_nodes;
NODEMASK_ALLOC(nodemask_t, unlinked_nodes, GFP_KERNEL);
unsigned long pfn, sect_start_pfn, sect_end_pfn;
if (!mem_blk)
if (!mem_blk) {
NODEMASK_FREE(unlinked_nodes);
return -EFAULT;
nodes_clear(unlinked_nodes);
}
if (!unlinked_nodes)
return -ENOMEM;
nodes_clear(*unlinked_nodes);
sect_start_pfn = section_nr_to_pfn(mem_blk->phys_index);
sect_end_pfn = sect_start_pfn + PAGES_PER_SECTION - 1;
for (pfn = sect_start_pfn; pfn <= sect_end_pfn; pfn++) {
......@@ -379,13 +383,14 @@ int unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes(struct memory_block *mem_blk)
continue;
if (!node_online(nid))
continue;
if (node_test_and_set(nid, unlinked_nodes))
if (node_test_and_set(nid, *unlinked_nodes))
continue;
sysfs_remove_link(&node_devices[nid].sysdev.kobj,
kobject_name(&mem_blk->sysdev.kobj));
sysfs_remove_link(&mem_blk->sysdev.kobj,
kobject_name(&node_devices[nid].sysdev.kobj));
}
NODEMASK_FREE(unlinked_nodes);
return 0;
}
......
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