Re: [PATCH v6 4/4] hugetlb: allow to free gigantic pages regardless of the configuration

From: Alex Ghiti
Date: Sat Mar 09 2019 - 04:32:37 EST


On 3/8/19 2:05 PM, Mike Kravetz wrote:
On 3/7/19 5:20 AM, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
On systems without CONTIG_ALLOC activated but that support gigantic pages,
boottime reserved gigantic pages can not be freed at all. This patch
simply enables the possibility to hand back those pages to memory
allocator.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [sparc]
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks Mike,

Alex