linux-kernel - Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v10 09/11] mm/hugetlb: Introduce nr_free_vmemmap

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Date:   Mon, 21 Dec 2020 17:33:47 +0800
From:   Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
To:     Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
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Subject: Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v10 09/11] mm/hugetlb: Introduce
 nr_free_vmemmap_pages in the struct hstate

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 4:17 PM Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 08:13:01PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> > @@ -182,6 +184,12 @@ bool hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled;
> >
> >  static int __init early_hugetlb_free_vmemmap_param(char *buf)
> >  {
> > +     /* We cannot optimize if a "struct page" crosses page boundaries. */
> > +     if ((!is_power_of_2(sizeof(struct page)))) {
> > +             pr_warn("cannot free vmemmap pages because \"struct page\" crosses page boundaries\n");
> > +             return 0;
> > +     }
>
> Unless there is a strong reason behind, I would move this to the previous patch,
> where early_hugetlb_free_vmemmap_param is introduced.

OK. Will do. Thanks.

>
> --
> Oscar Salvador
> SUSE L3



-- 
Yours,
Muchun