linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 21/21] mm/hugetlb: Disable freeing vmemmap if struct page size is not power of two

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Message-ID: <9b26c749-3bb6-4b16-d1fc-da7ec5d1e8a5@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 20 Nov 2020 10:15:30 +0100
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 21/21] mm/hugetlb: Disable freeing vmemmap if struct
 page size is not power of two

On 20.11.20 09:25, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Fri 20-11-20 14:43:25, Muchun Song wrote:
>> We only can free the unused vmemmap to the buddy system when the
>> size of struct page is a power of two.
> 
> Can we actually have !power_of_2 struct pages?

AFAIK multiples of 8 bytes (56, 64, 72) are possible.


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Thanks,

David / dhildenb