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

From: Muchun Song
Date: Mon Dec 21 2020 - 05:07:27 EST


On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 4:17 PM Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.

OK. Will do. Thanks.

>
> --
> Oscar Salvador
> SUSE L3



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Yours,
Muchun