Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] hugetlbfs: remove hugetlb_add_hstate() warning for existing hstate

From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] hugetlbfs: remove hugetlb_add_hstate() warning for existing hstate
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:12:26 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blnj4x9p.fsf@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200417185049.275845-4-mike.kravetz@oracle.com>

Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> writes:

> The routine hugetlb_add_hstate prints a warning if the hstate already
> exists.  This was originally done as part of kernel command line
> parsing.  If 'hugepagesz=' was specified more than once, the warning
> 	pr_warn("hugepagesz= specified twice, ignoring\n");
> would be printed.
>
> Some architectures want to enable all huge page sizes.  They would
> call hugetlb_add_hstate for all supported sizes.  However, this was
> done after command line processing and as a result hstates could have
> already been created for some sizes.  To make sure no warning were
> printed, there would often be code like:
> 	if (!size_to_hstate(size)
> 		hugetlb_add_hstate(ilog2(size) - PAGE_SHIFT)
>
> The only time we want to print the warning is as the result of command
> line processing.

Does this patch break hugepages=x command line? I haven't tested this
yet. But one of the details w.r.t. skipping that hugetlb_add_hstate is
to make sure we can configure the max_huge_pages. 

>So, remove the warning from hugetlb_add_hstate and
> add it to the single arch independent routine processing "hugepagesz=".
> After this, calls to size_to_hstate() in arch specific code can be
> removed and hugetlb_add_hstate can be called without worrying about
> warning messages.
>

-aneesh