Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm/hugetlb: do not dissolve gigantic pages without runtime support
Muchun Song <[email protected]>
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> On Aug 19, 2026, at 16:52, David Hildenbrand (Arm) <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 8/17/26 18:20, Longlong Xia wrote: >> From: Longlong Xia <[email protected]> >> >> dissolve_free_hugetlb_folio() doesn't check hstate_is_gigantic_no_runtime(h) >> though remove_hugetlb_folio()/update_and_free_hugetlb_folio() silently >> bail for such folios > > That's odd. Why do they silently skip such folios instead of warning that > something unexpected is happening? > > This screams for a cleanup unless I am missing something :) Hi David, Sashiko actually has a pretty detailed description [1]. So I think it deserves a fix. [1] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/[email protected] Muchun, Thanks. > > -- > Cheers, > > David