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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: Get rid of NODEMASK_ALLOC
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On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 03:34:15PM +0200, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> NODEMASK_ALLOC is used to allocate a nodemask bitmap, ant it does it by
> first determining whether it should be allocated in the stack or dinamically
> depending on NODES_SHIFT.
> Right now, it goes the dynamic path whenever the nodemask_t is above 32
> bytes.
>
> Although we could bump it to a reasonable value, the largest a nodemask_t
> can get is 128 bytes, so since __nr_hugepages_store_common is called from
> a rather shore stack we can just get rid of the NODEMASK_ALLOC call here.
>
> This reduces some code churn and complexity.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>

nice cleanup.

Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>

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