linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 13/19] mm/hugetlb: Add a BUILD_BUG_ON to check if struct page size is a power of two

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Message-Id: <20201026145114.59424-14-songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Date:   Mon, 26 Oct 2020 22:51:08 +0800
From:   Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v2 13/19] 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 d98b55ad1a90..e3209fd2e6b2 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3776,6 +3776,10 @@ 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