linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] hugetlbfs: Fix issue of preallocation of gigantic pages can't work

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Message-ID: <1e55a9e5-16fb-c863-e223-df02ad1a0449@oracle.com>
Date:   Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:58:04 -0800
From:   Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
To:     Zhenguo Yao <yaozhenguo1@...il.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        mlevitsk@...hat.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] hugetlbfs: Fix issue of preallocation of gigantic pages
 can't work

On 11/29/21 05:38, Zhenguo Yao wrote:
> Preallocation of gigantic pages can't work bacause of commit:b5389086ad7b
> (hugetlbfs: extend the definition of hugepages parameter to support node
> allocation). When nid is NUMA_NO_NODE(-1), alloc_bootmem_huge_page will
> always return without doing allocation. Fix this by adding more check.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhenguo Yao <yaozhenguo1@...il.com>

Thank you,


Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>

-- 
Mike Kravetz

> ---
>  mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 60f9b6a9582e..6d1603387914 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -2876,7 +2876,7 @@ int __alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h, int nid)
>  	struct huge_bootmem_page *m = NULL; /* initialize for clang */
>  	int nr_nodes, node;
>  
> -	if (nid >= nr_online_nodes)
> +	if (nid != NUMA_NO_NODE && nid >= nr_online_nodes)
>  		return 0;
>  	/* do node specific alloc */
>  	if (nid != NUMA_NO_NODE) {
>