Re: [PATCH] mm: fix hugetlb page unmap count balance issue

[Mike Kravetz]

On 06/07/23 14:00, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jun 2023 13:53:10 -0700 Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > BUGs aren't good.  Can we please find a way to push this along?
> > > 
> > > Have we heard anything from any udmabuf people?
> > > 
> > 
> > I have not heard anything.  When this issue popped up, it took me by surprise.
> > 
> > udmabuf maintainer (Gerd Hoffmann), the people who added hugetlb support and
> > the list where udmabuf was developed (dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) have
> > been on cc.
> 
> Maybe Greg can suggest a way forward.
> 
> > My 'gut reaction' would be to remove hugetlb support from udmabuf.  From a
> > quick look, if we really want this support then there will need to be some
> > API changes.  For example UDMABUF_CREATE should be hugetlb page aligned
> > and a multiple of hugetlb page size if using a hugetlb mapping.
> > 
> > It would be good to know about users of the driver.
> 
> So disabling "hugetlb=on" (and adding an explanatory printk) would
> suffice for now?

I can put together a patch to do that.

-- 
Mike Kravetz