From e9fdff87e893ec5b7c32836675db80cf691b2a8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Muchun Song Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:47:25 -0700 Subject: mm: hugetlb: add a kernel parameter hugetlb_free_vmemmap Add a kernel parameter hugetlb_free_vmemmap to enable the feature of freeing unused vmemmap pages associated with each hugetlb page on boot. We disable PMD mapping of vmemmap pages for x86-64 arch when this feature is enabled. Because vmemmap_remap_free() depends on vmemmap being base page mapped. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210510030027.56044-8-songmuchun@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Muchun Song Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Reviewed-by: Barry Song Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin Tested-by: Chen Huang Tested-by: Bodeddula Balasubramaniam Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Anshuman Khandual Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: David Rientjes Cc: HORIGUCHI NAOYA Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Joao Martins Cc: Joerg Roedel Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mina Almasry Cc: Oliver Neukum Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Pawan Gupta Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Xiongchun Duan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/mm') diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst index 6988895d09a8..8abaeb144e44 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst @@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ default_hugepagesz will all result in 256 2M huge pages being allocated. Valid default huge page size is architecture dependent. +hugetlb_free_vmemmap + When CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP is set, this enables freeing + unused vmemmap pages associated with each HugeTLB page. When multiple huge page sizes are supported, ``/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages`` indicates the current number of pre-allocated huge pages of the default size. -- cgit v1.2.3