linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm,hugetlb: Allocate frozen pages in alloc_buddy_hugetlb

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Message-ID: <Z_wHd1Cfsn1OyMU8@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 20:50:31 +0200
From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm,hugetlb: Allocate frozen pages in
 alloc_buddy_hugetlb_folio

On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 03:21:42PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Oscar, if you want to take on the gigantic allocation next ...
> 
>  - I don't think we need folio_alloc_gigantic() to be wrapped in
>    alloc_hooks
>  - folio_alloc_gigantic() should return a frozen folio
>  - as should hugetlb_cma_alloc_folio()

Yeah, I was taking a look at that as well.
I plan to tackle it in a few days.


-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs