Thread (96 messages) 96 messages, 16 authors, 2025-10-09

Re: [PATCH RFC 06/35] mm/page_alloc: reject unreasonable folio/compound page sizes in alloc_contig_range_noprof()

From: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-08-22 17:07:48
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:06:32 +0200 David Hildenbrand [off-list ref] wrote:
Let's reject them early,
I like early failures. :)
which in turn makes folio_alloc_gigantic() reject
them properly.

To avoid converting from order to nr_pages, let's just add MAX_FOLIO_ORDER
and calculate MAX_FOLIO_NR_PAGES based on that.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <redacted>
Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>


Thanks,
SJ

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