mm: fix accounting of memmap pages
authorSumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Thu, 7 Aug 2025 18:35:45 +0000 (20:35 +0200)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 28 Aug 2025 05:45:43 +0000 (22:45 -0700)
commitc3576889d87b603cb66b417e08844a53c1077a37
tree8b7a41c86d02281522b376043422c2417f9dfd5b
parent9f68eabab9d9aaa764a8d234c4170119e6518102
mm: fix accounting of memmap pages

For !CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, memmap page accounting is currently done
upfront in sparse_buffer_init().  However, sparse_buffer_alloc() may
return NULL in failure scenario.

Also, memmap pages may be allocated either from the memblock allocator
during early boot or from the buddy allocator.  When removed via
arch_remove_memory(), accounting of memmap pages must reflect the original
allocation source.

To ensure correctness:
* Account memmap pages after successful allocation in sparse_init_nid()
  and section_activate().
* Account memmap pages in section_deactivate() based on allocation
  source.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250807183545.1424509-1-sumanthk@linux.ibm.com
Fixes: 15995a352474 ("mm: report per-page metadata information")
Signed-off-by: Sumanth Korikkar <sumanthk@linux.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
mm/sparse-vmemmap.c
mm/sparse.c