[PATCH v7 06/15] mm/hugetlb: Disable freeing vmemmap if struct page size is not power of two

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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 51152e258f39..ad8fc61ea273 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 nr_pages = pages_per_huge_page(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 = (nr_pages * sizeof(struct page)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 	/*
 	 * The head page and the first tail page are not to be freed to buddy
-- 
2.11.0




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