Re: [PATCH] mm: hugetlb: fix hugetlb allocation failure when handling freed or in-use hugetlb

From: Muchun Song
Date: Mon Feb 05 2024 - 01:57:45 EST




> On Feb 5, 2024, at 11:54, Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When handling the freed hugetlb or in-use hugetlb, we should ignore the
> failure of alloc_buddy_hugetlb_folio() to dissolve the old hugetlb successfully,
> since we did not use the new allocated hugetlb in this 2 cases.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

OK. It is not a fix (I see a fix keyword in subject) but an
optimization for unnecessary-allocation cases. Thanks.

Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx>