linux-kernel - Re: Use higher-order pages in vmalloc

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Date:   Wed, 21 Feb 2018 08:50:06 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Subject: Re: Use higher-order pages in vmalloc

On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 04:11:16PM +0000, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 3:42 PM, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org> wrote:
> > +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> > @@ -319,12 +319,12 @@ static void account_kernel_stack(struct task_struct *tsk, int account)
> >         if (vm) {
> >                 int i;
> >
> > -               BUG_ON(vm->nr_pages != THREAD_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE);
...
> > +               if (j) {
> > +                       area->nr_pages -= (1UL << j) - 1;
> 
> Is there any code that expects area->nr_pages to be the size of the
> area in pages?  I don't know of any such code.

I found one and deleted it ;-)