Re: [PATCH RFC 06/35] mm/page_alloc: reject unreasonable folio/compound page sizes in alloc_contig_range_noprof()

From: Zi Yan
Date: Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:53:50 EST


On 21 Aug 2025, at 16:06, David Hildenbrand wrote:

> Let's reject them early, which in turn makes folio_alloc_gigantic() reject
> them properly.
>
> To avoid converting from order to nr_pages, let's just add MAX_FOLIO_ORDER
> and calculate MAX_FOLIO_NR_PAGES based on that.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/mm.h | 6 ++++--
> mm/page_alloc.c | 5 ++++-
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>

LGTM. Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@xxxxxxxxxx>


Best Regards,
Yan, Zi