[PATCHv6 09/17] mm/sparse: Check memmap alignment for compound_info_has_mask()

David Hildenbrand (Arm) david at kernel.org
Thu Feb 5 05:31:23 PST 2026


On 2/2/26 16:56, Kiryl Shutsemau wrote:
> If page->compound_info encodes a mask, it is expected that vmemmap to be
> naturally aligned to the maximum folio size.
> 
> Add a VM_BUG_ON() to check the alignment.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kiryl Shutsemau <kas at kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy at nvidia.com>
> ---
>   mm/sparse.c | 7 +++++++
>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
> index b5b2b6f7041b..6c9b62607f3f 100644
> --- a/mm/sparse.c
> +++ b/mm/sparse.c
> @@ -600,6 +600,13 @@ 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;
> +
> +		alignment = MAX_FOLIO_NR_PAGES * sizeof(struct page);
> +		VM_BUG_ON(!IS_ALIGNED((unsigned long) pfn_to_page(0), alignment));

No VM_BUG_ON. VM_WARN_ON_ONCE() should be good enough, no?

As discussed in the other thread, is checking for MAX_FOLIO_NR_PAGES 
alignment sufficient?

-- 
Cheers,

David



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