On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 07:56:49PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > - Considered using __GFP_COMP in try_alloc_pages to simplify > free_pages_nolock a bit, but then decided to make it work > for all types of pages, since free_pages_nolock() is used by > stackdepot and currently it's using non-compound order 2. > I felt it's best to leave it as-is and make free_pages_nolock() > support all pages. We're trying to eliminate non-use of __GFP_COMP. Because people don't use __GFP_COMP, there's a security check that we can't turn on. Would you reconsider this change you made?