On Thursday 04 Feb 2021 at 14:31:08 (+0000), Will Deacon wrote: > Just feels a bit backwards having __find_buddy() take an order parameter, > yet then return a page of the wrong order! __hyp_extract_page() always > passes the p->order as the order, Gotcha, so maybe this is just a naming problem. __find_buddy() is simply a helper to lookup/index the vmemmap, but it's perfectly possible that the 'destination' page that is being indexed has already been allocated, and split up multiple time (and so at a different order), etc ... And that is the caller's job to decide. How about __lookup_potential_buddy() ? Any suggestion?
