Re: [PATCH][v2] mm/hugetlb: early exit from hugetlb_pages_alloc_boot() when max_huge_pages=0

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 09:46:59 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >>>    	if (hugetlb_hstate_alloc_pages_specific_nodes(h))
> >>>    		return;
> >>
> >> Looks good.  Could you add stable: ?
> 
> Can you elaborate why you think this is stable material?
> 

To prevent the

> [    3.702280] HugeTLB: allocation took 0ms with hugepage_allocation_threads=32

message when hugetlb pages are disabled.

Yeah, I guess it isn't very important.  I'll destabilize the patch.