On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 10:52:37AM +0100, Steve Capper wrote: > 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. ) It looks confusing to me. Shouldn't we fix what MAX_ORDER means instead? -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
