[PATCHv5 09/17] mm/sparse: Check memmap alignment for compound_info_has_mask()

Kiryl Shutsemau kas at kernel.org
Wed Jan 28 05:54:50 PST 2026


If page->compound_info encodes a mask, it is expected that vmemmap to be
naturally aligned to the maximum folio size.

Trigger a BUG() for CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y or WARN() otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas at kernel.org>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy at nvidia.com>
---
 mm/sparse.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index b5b2b6f7041b..9c0f4015778c 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -600,6 +600,19 @@ void __init sparse_init(void)
 	BUILD_BUG_ON(!is_power_of_2(sizeof(struct mem_section)));
 	memblocks_present();
 
+	if (compound_info_has_mask()) {
+		unsigned long alignment;
+		bool aligned;
+
+		alignment = MAX_FOLIO_NR_PAGES * sizeof(struct page);
+		aligned = IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long) pfn_to_page(0), alignment);
+
+		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM))
+			BUG_ON(!aligned);
+		else
+			WARN_ON(!aligned);
+	}
+
 	pnum_begin = first_present_section_nr();
 	nid_begin = sparse_early_nid(__nr_to_section(pnum_begin));
 
-- 
2.51.2




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