Re: [PATCH v6 2/8] hugetlb: restructure pool allocations

[Konrad Dybcio]

On 26.09.2023 01:48, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> Allocation of a hugetlb page for the hugetlb pool is done by the routine
> alloc_pool_huge_page.  This routine will allocate contiguous pages from
> a low level allocator, prep the pages for usage as a hugetlb page and
> then add the resulting hugetlb page to the pool.
> 
> In the 'prep' stage, optional vmemmap optimization is done.  For
> performance reasons we want to perform vmemmap optimization on multiple
> hugetlb pages at once.  To do this, restructure the hugetlb pool
> allocation code such that vmemmap optimization can be isolated and later
> batched.
> 
> The code to allocate hugetlb pages from bootmem was also modified to
> allow batching.
> 
> No functional changes, only code restructure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
Hi, looks like this patch prevents today's next from booting
on at least one Qualcomm ARM64 platform. Reverting it makes
the device boot again.

Konrad