linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: Respect mmap hint address when aligning for THP

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Message-ID: <8dcc96f65ebbcb5d26d18342b0dffda6acd77b91.camel@surriel.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 17:06:14 -0500
From: Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>
To: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@...gle.com>
Cc: kernel-team@...roid.com, android-mm@...gle.com, Andrew Morton
 <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>, Yang Shi
 <yang@...amperecomputing.com>, Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>, Suren
 Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>, Hans
 Boehm <hboehm@...gle.com>, Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@...gle.com>,
 stable@...r.kernel.org, "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@...cle.com>,
 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com>,  Jann Horn
 <jannh@...gle.com>, Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Respect mmap hint address when aligning for THP

On Fri, 2024-11-15 at 13:52 -0800, Kalesh Singh wrote:
> 
> To restore the expected behavior; don't use
> thp_get_unmapped_area_vmflags()
> when the user provided a hint address.
> 
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
> Cc: Yang Shi <yang@...amperecomputing.com>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>
> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@....com>
> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>
> Cc: Hans Boehm <hboehm@...gle.com>
> Cc: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@...gle.com>
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
> Fixes: efa7df3e3bb5 ("mm: align larger anonymous mappings on THP
> boundaries")
> Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@...gle.com>
> 

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>

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