We only can free the tail vmemmap pages of HugeTLB to the buddy allocator when the size of struct page is a power of two. Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c index fad760483e01..fd60cfdf3d40 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c @@ -111,6 +111,11 @@ void __init hugetlb_vmemmap_init(struct hstate *h) unsigned int order = huge_page_order(h); unsigned int vmemmap_pages; + if (!is_power_of_2(sizeof(struct page))) { + pr_info("disable freeing vmemmap pages for %s\n", h->name); + return; + } + vmemmap_pages = ((1 << order) * sizeof(struct page)) >> PAGE_SHIFT; /* * The head page and the first tail page are not to be freed to buddy -- 2.11.0