Re: [PATCH v2] mm: fix accounting of memmap pages for early sections

[Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2025 at 02:46:43PM +0200, Sumanth Korikkar wrote:
>> The change here is reasonable. While maybe we still miss the counting at some
>> other points.
>> 
>> For example:
>> 
>> a. 
>> 
>>   sparse_init_nid()
>>     __populate_section_memmap()
>> 
>> If !CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, and sparse_buffer_alloc() return NULL, it
>> allocate extra memory from bootmem, which looks not counted.
>
>Currently, the accounting is done upfront in sparse_buffer_init(), where
>memmap_boot_pages_add() is called for !CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP.
>
>The function sparse_buffer_alloc() can return NULL in two scenarios:
>
>* During sparse_buffer_init(), if memmap_alloc() fails, sparsemap_buf will be NULL.
>* Inside sparse_buffer_alloc(), if ptr + size exceeds sparsemap_buf_end,
>  then ptr is set to NULL.
>
>Considering this, perhaps memmap_boot_pages_add() could be moved into
>__populate_section_memmap(), with the accounting done only if the
>operation is successful. What do you think?
>

Looks reasonable to me.

>>   section_activate()
>>     populate_section_memmap()
>> 
>> If !CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, it just call kvmalloc_node(), which looks not
>> counted.
>
>Sounds right. This means nr_memmap_pages adjustment is needed for
>!CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP here. I will recheck this.
>
>Thank you

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