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-rw-r--r--include/linux/mmzone.h4
-rw-r--r--mm/sparse.c3
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
index 09d381b71fd..ae19af5ec02 100644
--- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
+++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
@@ -1137,6 +1137,10 @@ struct mem_section {
struct page_cgroup *page_cgroup;
unsigned long pad;
#endif
+ /*
+ * WARNING: mem_section must be a power-of-2 in size for the
+ * calculation and use of SECTION_ROOT_MASK to make sense.
+ */
};
#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index 1c91f0d3f6a..3194ec41472 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -481,6 +481,9 @@ void __init sparse_init(void)
struct page **map_map;
#endif
+ /* see include/linux/mmzone.h 'struct mem_section' definition */
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(!is_power_of_2(sizeof(struct mem_section)));
+
/* Setup pageblock_order for HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE */
set_pageblock_order();