Re: [RFC PATCH v1 3/7] mm: hugetlb: Move mpol interpretation out of dequeue_hugetlb_folio_vma()

[James Houghton]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 4:37 PM Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Move memory policy interpretation out of dequeue_hugetlb_folio_vma() and
> into alloc_hugetlb_folio() to separate reading and interpretation of memory
> policy from actual allocation.
>
> Also rename dequeue_hugetlb_folio_vma() to
> dequeue_hugetlb_folio_with_mpol() to remove association with vma and to
> align with alloc_buddy_hugetlb_folio_with_mpol().
>
> 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>