From: Yasunori Goto alloc_bootmem_section() can allocate specified section's area. This is used for usemap to keep same section with pgdat by later patch. Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto Cc: Badari Pulavarty Cc: Yinghai Lu Cc: Yasunori Goto Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/bootmem.h | 2 ++ mm/bootmem.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+) diff -puN include/linux/bootmem.h~memory-hotplug-make-alloc_bootmem_section include/linux/bootmem.h --- a/include/linux/bootmem.h~memory-hotplug-make-alloc_bootmem_section +++ a/include/linux/bootmem.h @@ -101,6 +101,8 @@ extern void reserve_bootmem_node(pg_data extern void free_bootmem_node(pg_data_t *pgdat, unsigned long addr, unsigned long size); +extern void *alloc_bootmem_section(unsigned long size, + unsigned long section_nr); #ifndef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE #define alloc_bootmem_node(pgdat, x) \ diff -puN mm/bootmem.c~memory-hotplug-make-alloc_bootmem_section mm/bootmem.c --- a/mm/bootmem.c~memory-hotplug-make-alloc_bootmem_section +++ a/mm/bootmem.c @@ -540,6 +540,37 @@ void * __init __alloc_bootmem_node(pg_da return __alloc_bootmem(size, align, goal); } +#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM +void * __init alloc_bootmem_section(unsigned long size, + unsigned long section_nr) +{ + void *ptr; + unsigned long limit, goal, start_nr, end_nr, pfn; + struct pglist_data *pgdat; + + pfn = section_nr_to_pfn(section_nr); + goal = PFN_PHYS(pfn); + limit = PFN_PHYS(section_nr_to_pfn(section_nr + 1)) - 1; + pgdat = NODE_DATA(early_pfn_to_nid(pfn)); + ptr = __alloc_bootmem_core(pgdat->bdata, size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, goal, + limit); + + if (!ptr) + return NULL; + + start_nr = pfn_to_section_nr(PFN_DOWN(__pa(ptr))); + end_nr = pfn_to_section_nr(PFN_DOWN(__pa(ptr) + size)); + if (start_nr != section_nr || end_nr != section_nr) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "alloc_bootmem failed on section %ld.\n", + section_nr); + free_bootmem_core(pgdat->bdata, __pa(ptr), size); + ptr = NULL; + } + + return ptr; +} +#endif + #ifndef ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT #define ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT 0xffffffffUL #endif _