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Message-Id: <20200915125947.26204-18-songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Date:   Tue, 15 Sep 2020 20:59:40 +0800
From:   Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
To:     corbet@....net, mike.kravetz@...cle.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
        mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, x86@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com,
        dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, luto@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        paulmck@...nel.org, mchehab+huawei@...nel.org,
        pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com, rdunlap@...radead.org,
        oneukum@...e.com, anshuman.khandual@....com, jroedel@...e.de,
        almasrymina@...gle.com, rientjes@...gle.com
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 17/24] mm/hugetlb: Add a BUILD_BUG_ON to check if struct page size is a power of two

We only can free the unused vmemmap to the buddy system when the
size of struct page is a power of two. So add a BUILD_BUG_ON to
check the illegal case.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
---
 mm/hugetlb.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 7072b849af3d..34706cec21ec 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3817,6 +3817,10 @@ static int __init hugetlb_init(void)
 {
 	int i;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
+	BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2(sizeof(struct page));
+#endif
+
 	if (!hugepages_supported()) {
 		if (hugetlb_max_hstate || default_hstate_max_huge_pages)
 			pr_warn("HugeTLB: huge pages not supported, ignoring associated command-line parameters\n");
-- 
2.20.1

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