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mm: hugetlb: add a kernel parameter hugetlb_free_vmemmap

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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 <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Chen Huang <chenhuang5@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Bodeddula Balasubramaniam <bodeddub@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: HORIGUCHI NAOYA <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Muchun Song
2021-06-30 18:47:25 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent ad2fa3717b
commit e9fdff87e8
5 changed files with 69 additions and 2 deletions
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Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
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@@ -1567,6 +1567,23 @@
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
Format: size[KMG]
hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
[KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
enabled.
Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
memory (6 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
This feauture is not free though. Large page
tables are not used to back vmemmap pages which
can lead to a performance degradation for some
workloads. Also there will be memory allocation
required when hugetlb pages are freed from the
pool which can lead to corner cases under heavy
memory pressure.
Format: { on | off (default) }
on: enable the feature
off: disable the feature
hung_task_panic=
[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
Format: 0 | 1

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Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
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@@ -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.