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diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 9440d61b925c..5b64c1b8461e 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2253,6 +2253,8 @@ static void sighand_ctor(void *data)
void __init proc_caches_init(void)
{
+ unsigned int mm_size;
+
sighand_cachep = kmem_cache_create("sighand_cache",
sizeof(struct sighand_struct), 0,
SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU|
@@ -2269,15 +2271,16 @@ void __init proc_caches_init(void)
sizeof(struct fs_struct), 0,
SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_ACCOUNT,
NULL);
+
/*
- * FIXME! The "sizeof(struct mm_struct)" currently includes the
- * whole struct cpumask for the OFFSTACK case. We could change
- * this to *only* allocate as much of it as required by the
- * maximum number of CPU's we can ever have. The cpumask_allocation
- * is at the end of the structure, exactly for that reason.
+ * The mm_cpumask is located at the end of mm_struct, and is
+ * dynamically sized based on the maximum CPU number this system
+ * can have, taking hotplug into account (nr_cpu_ids).
*/
+ mm_size = sizeof(struct mm_struct) + cpumask_size();
+
mm_cachep = kmem_cache_create_usercopy("mm_struct",
- sizeof(struct mm_struct), ARCH_MIN_MMSTRUCT_ALIGN,
+ mm_size, ARCH_MIN_MMSTRUCT_ALIGN,
SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC|SLAB_ACCOUNT,
offsetof(struct mm_struct, saved_auxv),
sizeof_field(struct mm_struct, saved_auxv),