[RFC PATCH v2 05/11] mm: thp: Correct the HPAGE_PMD_ORDER check.

Steve Capper steve.capper at linaro.org
Wed May 8 05:52:37 EDT 2013


All Transparent Huge Pages are allocated by the buddy allocator.

A compile time check is in place that fails when the order of a
transparent huge page is too large to be allocated by the buddy
allocator. Unfortunately that compile time check passes when:
HPAGE_PMD_ORDER == MAX_ORDER
( which is incorrect as the buddy allocator can only allocate
memory of order strictly less than MAX_ORDER. )

This patch updates the compile time check to fail in the above
case.

Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper at linaro.org>
---
 include/linux/huge_mm.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
index ee1c244..3d71e5c 100644
--- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ extern void __split_huge_page_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	} while (0)
 extern void split_huge_page_pmd_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address,
 		pmd_t *pmd);
-#if HPAGE_PMD_ORDER > MAX_ORDER
+#if HPAGE_PMD_ORDER >= MAX_ORDER
 #error "hugepages can't be allocated by the buddy allocator"
 #endif
 extern int hugepage_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
-- 
1.8.1.4




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