linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [12/18] Add support to allocate hugetlb pages that are larger than MAX

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Date:	Wed, 9 Apr 2008 19:56:29 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Andrew Hastings <abh@...y.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	pj@....com, linux-mm@...ck.org, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [12/18] Add support to allocate hugetlb pages that are larger than MAX_ORDER

> This looks like an off-by-one error here and in the code below -- it 
> should be ">= MAX_ORDER" not "> MAX_ORDER".  Cf alloc_pages() in gfp.h:
> 
>         if (unlikely(order >= MAX_ORDER))
>                 return NULL;

True good point. Although it will only matter if some architecture
has MAX_ORDER sized huge pages :) x86-64 definitely hasn't.

I passed this code over to Nick so he'll hopefully incorporate the fix.

-Andi
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