linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/24] mm/hugetlb: Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page

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Message-ID: <de59e509-1936-f7fb-b14c-52ef7f642bb2@intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 15 Sep 2020 07:53:59 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/24] mm/hugetlb: Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb
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On 9/15/20 7:32 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 08:59:23PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
>> This patch series will free some vmemmap pages(struct page structures)
>> associated with each hugetlbpage when preallocated to save memory.
> It would be lovely to be able to do this.  Unfortunately, it's completely
> impossible right now.  Consider, for example, get_user_pages() called
> on the fifth page of a hugetlb page.

Yeah, exactly.

Does this series survive the in-kernel selftests/?  If so, sounds like
we need to add a new selftest.