Re: [RFC PATCH v1 2/7] mm: hugetlb: Move mpol interpretation out of alloc_buddy_hugetlb_folio_with_mpol()

[James Houghton]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 4:37 PM Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Move memory policy interpretation out of
> alloc_buddy_hugetlb_folio_with_mpol() and into alloc_hugetlb_folio() to
> separate reading and interpretation of memory policy from actual
> allocation.
>
> This will later allow memory policy to be interpreted outside of the
> process of allocating a hugetlb folio entirely. This opens doors for other
> callers of the HugeTLB folio allocation function, such as guest_memfd,
> where memory may not always be mapped and hence may not have an associated
> vma.
>
> No functional change intended.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@xxxxxxxxxx>