Re: [RFC PATCH v2] page_alloc: allow migration of smaller hugepages during contig_alloc

[Gregory Price]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 09:14:43AM +0000, Wei Yang wrote:
> 
> The above code is expanded to:
> 
>   page = _compound_head(page);
>   order = compound_order(page);
>       folio = page;
>       test_bit(PG_head, &folio->flags.f);
>       return folio_large_order(folio);
> 
> If we use
> 
>   order = folio_order(page_folio(page))
> 
> It is expanded to:
> 
>   folio = _compound_head(page);
>   folio_test_large(folio)
>       folio_test_head(folio)
>           test_bit(PG_head, &folio->flags.f)
>   return folio_large_order(folio);
> 
> These two seems expanded to the same code.
> 

folio_test_large drops into const_folio_flags which does
a VM_BUG_ON_PGFLAGS, so not the same logic here.

> Maybe we can use folio_order() here?
>