linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] percpu fix for v5.9-rc6

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Date:   Thu, 17 Sep 2020 20:45:14 +0000
From:   Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] percpu fix for v5.9-rc6

Hi Linus,

This is a fix for the first chunk size calculation where the variable
length array incorrectly used # of longs instead of bytes of longs. This
came in as a code fix and not a bug report, so I don't think it was
widely problematic. I believe it worked out due to it being memblock
memory and alignment requirements working in our favor.

Thanks,
Dennis

The following changes since commit f75aef392f869018f78cfedf3c320a6b3fcfda6b:

  Linux 5.9-rc3 (2020-08-30 16:01:54 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dennis/percpu.git for-5.9-fixes

for you to fetch changes up to b3b33d3c43bbe0177d70653f4e889c78cc37f097:

  percpu: fix first chunk size calculation for populated bitmap (2020-09-17 17:34:39 +0000)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Sunghyun Jin (1):
      percpu: fix first chunk size calculation for populated bitmap

 mm/percpu.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/percpu.c b/mm/percpu.c
index f4709629e6de..1ed1a349eab8 100644
--- a/mm/percpu.c
+++ b/mm/percpu.c
@@ -1316,7 +1316,7 @@ static struct pcpu_chunk * __init pcpu_alloc_first_chunk(unsigned long tmp_addr,
 
 	/* allocate chunk */
 	alloc_size = sizeof(struct pcpu_chunk) +
-		BITS_TO_LONGS(region_size >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+		BITS_TO_LONGS(region_size >> PAGE_SHIFT) * sizeof(unsigned long);
 	chunk = memblock_alloc(alloc_size, SMP_CACHE_BYTES);
 	if (!chunk)
 		panic("%s: Failed to allocate %zu bytes\n", __func__,