From 55878e88c59221c3187e1c24ec3b15eb79c374c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cody P Schafer Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:04:44 -0700 Subject: sparsemem: add BUILD_BUG_ON when sizeof mem_section is non-power-of-2 Instead of leaving a hidden trap for the next person who comes along and wants to add something to mem_section, add a big fat warning about it needing to be a power-of-2, and insert a BUILD_BUG_ON() in sparse_init() to catch mistakes. Right now non-power-of-2 mem_sections cause a number of WARNs at boot (which don't clearly point to the size of mem_section as an issue), but the system limps on (temporarily, at least). This is based upon Dave Hansen's earlier RFC where he ran into the same issue: "sparsemem: fix boot when SECTIONS_PER_ROOT is not power-of-2" http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1205.2/03077.html Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer Acked-by: Dave Hansen Cc: Jiang Liu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mmzone.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h index 09d381b71fd8..ae19af5ec02c 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h @@ -1137,6 +1137,10 @@ struct mem_section { struct page_cgroup *page_cgroup; unsigned long pad; #endif + /* + * WARNING: mem_section must be a power-of-2 in size for the + * calculation and use of SECTION_ROOT_MASK to make sense. + */ }; #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME -- cgit v1.2.3