Re: [PATCH] mm: huge_memory: don't force huge page alignment on 32 bit

[Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>]

On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 05:35 -0800, Yang Shi wrote:
> From: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com>
> 
> The commit efa7df3e3bb5 ("mm: align larger anonymous mappings on THP
> boundaries") caused two issues [1] [2] reported on 32 bit system or
> compat
> userspace.
> 
> It doesn't make too much sense to force huge page alignment on 32 bit
> system due to the constrained virtual address space.
> 

> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> 
> @@ -811,6 +812,14 @@ static unsigned long
> __thp_get_unmapped_area(struct file *filp,
>         loff_t off_align = round_up(off, size);
>         unsigned long len_pad, ret;
>  
> +       /*
> +        * It doesn't make too much sense to froce huge page
> alignment on
> +        * 32 bit system or compat userspace due to the contrained
> virtual
> +        * address space and address entropy.
> +        */
> +       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_32BIT) || in_compat_syscall())
> +               return 0;
> +
>         if (off_end <= off_align || (off_end - off_align) < size)
>                 return 0;
>  

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>

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