Sparsemem currently attempts first to do a physically contiguous mapping
and then falls back to vmalloc. The same thing can now be accomplished
using GFP_VFALLBACK.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

---
 mm/sparse.c |   23 +++--------------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/mm/sparse.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/sparse.c	2007-09-19 18:05:34.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6/mm/sparse.c	2007-09-19 18:27:25.000000000 -0700
@@ -269,32 +269,15 @@ void __init sparse_init(void)
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
 static struct page *__kmalloc_section_memmap(unsigned long nr_pages)
 {
-	struct page *page, *ret;
 	unsigned long memmap_size = sizeof(struct page) * nr_pages;
 
-	page = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN, get_order(memmap_size));
-	if (page)
-		goto got_map_page;
-
-	ret = vmalloc(memmap_size);
-	if (ret)
-		goto got_map_ptr;
-
-	return NULL;
-got_map_page:
-	ret = (struct page *)pfn_to_kaddr(page_to_pfn(page));
-got_map_ptr:
-	memset(ret, 0, memmap_size);
-
-	return ret;
+	return (struct page *)__get_free_pages(GFP_VFALLBACK,
+		get_order(memmap_size));
 }
 
 static void __kfree_section_memmap(struct page *memmap, unsigned long nr_pages)
 {
-	if (is_vmalloc_addr(memmap))
-		vfree(memmap);
-	else
-		free_pages((unsigned long)memmap,
+	free_pages((unsigned long)memmap,
 			   get_order(sizeof(struct page) * nr_pages));
 }
 

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