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| -rw-r--r-- | mm/sparse-vmemmap.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c index f4fa61dbbee3..dbbd1a7e65f3 100644 --- a/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c +++ b/mm/sparse-vmemmap.c @@ -78,6 +78,14 @@ static int __split_vmemmap_huge_pmd(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long start) spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock); if (likely(pmd_leaf(*pmd))) { + /* + * Higher order allocations from buddy allocator must be able to + * be treated as indepdenent small pages (as they can be freed + * individually). + */ + if (!PageReserved(page)) + split_page(page, get_order(PMD_SIZE)); + /* Make pte visible before pmd. See comment in pmd_install(). */ smp_wmb(); pmd_populate_kernel(&init_mm, pmd, pgtable); |