linux-kernel - Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v10 03/11] mm/hugetlb: Free the vmemmap pages associated with each HugeTLB page

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Message-ID: <20201221134345.GA19324@linux>
Date:   Mon, 21 Dec 2020 14:43:53 +0100
From:   Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
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Subject: Re: [External] Re: [PATCH v10 03/11] mm/hugetlb: Free the vmemmap
 pages associated with each HugeTLB page

On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 07:25:15PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:

> Should we add a BUG_ON in vmemmap_remap_free() for now?
> 
>         BUG_ON(reuse != start + PAGE_SIZE);

I do not think we have to, plus we would be BUG_ing for some specific use
case in "generic" function.
Maybe others think different though.

-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3