The patch titled Subject: mm/hugetlb: align cma on allocation order, not demotion order has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is mm-hugetlb-align-cma-on-allocation-order-not-demotion-order.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/mm-hugetlb-align-cma-on-allocation-order-not-demotion-order.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/hugetlb: align cma on allocation order, not demotion order Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:14:37 +0000 Align the CMA area for hugetlb gigantic pages to their size, not the size that they can be demoted to. Otherwise there might be misaligned sections at the start and end of the CMA area that will never be used for hugetlb page allocations. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240430161437.2100295-1-fvdl@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: a01f43901cfb ("hugetlb: be sure to free demoted CMA pages to CMA") Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/hugetlb.c~mm-hugetlb-align-cma-on-allocation-order-not-demotion-order +++ a/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -7800,7 +7800,7 @@ void __init hugetlb_cma_reserve(int orde * huge page demotion. */ res = cma_declare_contiguous_nid(0, size, 0, - PAGE_SIZE << HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER, + PAGE_SIZE << order, HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER, false, name, &hugetlb_cma[nid], nid); if (res) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from fvdl@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-hugetlb-align-cma-on-allocation-order-not-demotion-order.patch