[PATCH] riscv/mm: use physical alignment for vmemmap_start_pfn

[Kiryl Shutsemau]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 11:53:25AM +0000, Jiakai Xu wrote:
> RISC-V computes vmemmap_start_pfn by rounding phys_ram_base down to
> VMEMMAP_ADDR_ALIGN. That alignment must therefore be expressed in the
> physical-address domain.
> 
> Commit 476849b0fba4 ("riscv/mm: align vmemmap to maximal folio size")
> attempted to account for the maximal folio alignment by feeding
> MAX_FOLIO_VMEMMAP_ALIGN directly into VMEMMAP_ADDR_ALIGN. However,
> MAX_FOLIO_VMEMMAP_ALIGN is measured in bytes of struct page storage,
> whereas VMEMMAP_ADDR_ALIGN is used to align a physical address.
> 
> The mask-based compound_info encoding requires pfn_to_page(0) to be
> naturally aligned to MAX_FOLIO_VMEMMAP_ALIGN. Commit 9f94db4c7eaa
> ("mm/sparse: check memmap alignment for compound_info_has_mask()")
> added a check for that requirement and exposed the unit mismatch on
> systems such as QEMU virt, where the DRAM base is not aligned to
> MAX_FOLIO_NR_PAGES * PAGE_SIZE.
> 
> Convert MAX_FOLIO_VMEMMAP_ALIGN to the equivalent physical alignment
> before using it in VMEMMAP_ADDR_ALIGN. This keeps the existing
> round_down() logic while making the resulting vmemmap base satisfy the
> mask-alignment requirement.
> 
> Fixes: 476849b0fba4 ("riscv/mm: align vmemmap to maximal folio size")
> Signed-off-by: Jiakai Xu <xujiakai2025 at iscas.ac.cn>
> Assisted-by: YuanSheng:DeepSeek-V4-Flash

Reviewed-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas at kernel.org>

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