Re: [PATCH v10 09/11] mm/hugetlb: Introduce nr_free_vmemmap_pages in the struct hstate

From: Oscar Salvador
Date: Mon Dec 21 2020 - 03:17:47 EST


On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 08:13:01PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> @@ -182,6 +184,12 @@ bool hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled;
>
> static int __init early_hugetlb_free_vmemmap_param(char *buf)
> {
> + /* We cannot optimize if a "struct page" crosses page boundaries. */
> + if ((!is_power_of_2(sizeof(struct page)))) {
> + pr_warn("cannot free vmemmap pages because \"struct page\" crosses page boundaries\n");
> + return 0;
> + }

Unless there is a strong reason behind, I would move this to the previous patch,
where early_hugetlb_free_vmemmap_param is introduced.

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Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3