[PATCH] Revert "mm: fix MAX_FOLIO_ORDER on powerpc configs with hugetlb"
David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
david at kernel.org
Fri Dec 5 18:05:14 AEDT 2025
>> 39231e8d6ba7 simply shuffles ifdefs and Kconfig items, so I assume it
>> exposed a pre-existing bug.
>>
>> Reverting 39231e8d6ba7 will re-hide that bug.
>
> Shuah confirmed that the bugs were on v6.18-rc6 and they were fixed in
> 6.18 [1].
>
> I verified that reverting 39231e8d6ba7 from v6.18-rc6 does not solve
> anything, but applying 5bebe8de19264 does [2].
>
Thanks!
> So reverting 39231e8d6ba7 does not change anything and there is no bug it
> hides. The bug was introduced by adfb6609c680 ("mm/huge_memory: initialise
> the tags of the huge zero folio"), was fixed by 5bebe8de1926
> ("mm/huge_memory: Fix initialization of huge zero folio") ...
>
>> And that isn't a bad thing. If we re-hide the bug in 6.18.x and in
>> mainline then that relieves the people who are hitting this and it
>> takes the pressure off David, Mike and yourself to get the underlying
>> bug fixed in a hurry.
>>
>> So I think I'll queue this as a hotfix, plan to send it Linuswards in a
>> couple of days.
>>
>> Or Linus may choose to apply it directly or to do a local revert of
>> 39231e8d6ba7. But I don't see how a local revert will get communicated
>> to the 6.18.x maintainers.
>>
>> David, Linus, opinions please?
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan at linuxfoundation.org>
>>
>> Let's have a cc:stable here, just to be sure.
>
> ... and we can skip all this hassle.
Yes.
Thinking about reverting arbitrary commits after Shuah clearly tested
something wrong is completely unreasonable.
--
Cheers
David
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