[PATCH RFC 06/35] mm/page_alloc: reject unreasonable folio/compound page sizes in alloc_contig_range_noprof()

[SeongJae Park]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:06:32 +0200 David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:

> Let's reject them early,

I like early failures. :)

> which in turn makes folio_alloc_gigantic() reject
> them properly.
> 
> To avoid converting from order to nr_pages, let's just add MAX_FOLIO_ORDER
> and calculate MAX_FOLIO_NR_PAGES based on that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>

Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj at kernel.org>


Thanks,
SJ

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