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. ) This patch updates the compile time check to fail in the above case. Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@xxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/huge_mm.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h index ee1c244..3d71e5c 100644 --- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h +++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ extern void __split_huge_page_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, } while (0) extern void split_huge_page_pmd_mm(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmd); -#if HPAGE_PMD_ORDER > MAX_ORDER +#if HPAGE_PMD_ORDER >= MAX_ORDER #error "hugepages can't be allocated by the buddy allocator" #endif extern int hugepage_madvise(struct vm_area_struct *vma, -- 1.8.1.4 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>