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mm/sparsemem: get address to page struct instead of address to pfn

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memmap should be the address to page struct instead of address to pfn.

As mentioned by David, if system memory and devmem sit within a section,
the mismatch address would lead kdump to dump unexpected memory.

Since sub-section only works for SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, pfn_to_page() is valid
to get the page struct address at this point.

Fixes: ba72b4c8cf ("mm/sparsemem: support sub-section hotplug")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200210005048.10437-1-richardw.yang@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Wei Yang 2020-04-01 21:09:24 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 0c28759ee3
commit 4627d76dcf
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@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ int __meminit sparse_add_section(int nid, unsigned long start_pfn,
/* Align memmap to section boundary in the subsection case */
if (section_nr_to_pfn(section_nr) != start_pfn)
memmap = pfn_to_kaddr(section_nr_to_pfn(section_nr));
memmap = pfn_to_page(section_nr_to_pfn(section_nr));
sparse_init_one_section(ms, section_nr, memmap, ms->usage, 0);
return 0;