linux/mm
Luiz Capitulino 944d9fec8d hugetlb: add support for gigantic page allocation at runtime
HugeTLB is limited to allocating hugepages whose size are less than
MAX_ORDER order.  This is so because HugeTLB allocates hugepages via the
buddy allocator.  Gigantic pages (that is, pages whose size is greater
than MAX_ORDER order) have to be allocated at boottime.

However, boottime allocation has at least two serious problems.  First,
it doesn't support NUMA and second, gigantic pages allocated at boottime
can't be freed.

This commit solves both issues by adding support for allocating gigantic
pages during runtime.  It works just like regular sized hugepages,
meaning that the interface in sysfs is the same, it supports NUMA, and
gigantic pages can be freed.

For example, on x86_64 gigantic pages are 1GB big. To allocate two 1G
gigantic pages on node 1, one can do:

 # echo 2 > \
   /sys/devices/system/node/node1/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages

And to free them all:

 # echo 0 > \
   /sys/devices/system/node/node1/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages

The one problem with gigantic page allocation at runtime is that it
can't be serviced by the buddy allocator.  To overcome that problem,
this commit scans all zones from a node looking for a large enough
contiguous region.  When one is found, it's allocated by using CMA, that
is, we call alloc_contig_range() to do the actual allocation.  For
example, on x86_64 we scan all zones looking for a 1GB contiguous
region.  When one is found, it's allocated by alloc_contig_range().

One expected issue with that approach is that such gigantic contiguous
regions tend to vanish as runtime goes by.  The best way to avoid this
for now is to make gigantic page allocations very early during system
boot, say from a init script.  Other possible optimization include using
compaction, which is supported by CMA but is not explicitly used by this
commit.

It's also important to note the following:

 1. Gigantic pages allocated at boottime by the hugepages= command-line
    option can be freed at runtime just fine

 2. This commit adds support for gigantic pages only to x86_64. The
    reason is that I don't have access to nor experience with other archs.
    The code is arch indepedent though, so it should be simple to add
    support to different archs

 3. I didn't add support for hugepage overcommit, that is allocating
    a gigantic page on demand when
   /proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages > 0. The reason is that I don't
   think it's reasonable to do the hard and long work required for
   allocating a gigantic page at fault time. But it should be simple
   to add this if wanted

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-06-04 16:53:59 -07:00
..
backing-dev.c arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*() 2014-04-18 14:20:48 +02:00
balloon_compaction.c mm: print more details for bad_page() 2014-01-23 16:36:50 -08:00
bootmem.c mm/bootmem.c: remove unused local `map' 2013-11-13 12:09:09 +09:00
cleancache.c mm: dump page when hitting a VM_BUG_ON using VM_BUG_ON_PAGE 2014-01-23 16:36:50 -08:00
compaction.c mm/compaction: make isolate_freepages start at pageblock boundary 2014-05-06 13:04:59 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c mm: Fix printk typo in dmapool.c 2014-05-05 15:44:47 +02:00
early_ioremap.c mm: create generic early_ioremap() support 2014-04-07 16:36:15 -07:00
fadvise.c teach SYSCALL_DEFINE<n> how to deal with long long/unsigned long long 2013-03-03 22:46:22 -05:00
failslab.c
filemap_xip.c seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structures 2013-11-06 12:40:26 +01:00
filemap.c Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next 2014-06-03 12:57:53 -07:00
fremap.c mm: softdirty: make freshly remapped file pages being softdirty unconditionally 2014-06-04 16:53:56 -07:00
frontswap.c frontswap: fix incorrect zeroing and allocation size for frontswap_map 2013-06-12 16:29:46 -07:00
highmem.c Some nice cleanups, and even a patch my wife did as a "live" demo for 2012-12-20 08:37:05 -08:00
huge_memory.c mm/huge_memory.c: complete conversion to pr_foo() 2014-06-04 16:53:58 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c cgroup: drop const from @buffer of cftype->write_string() 2014-03-19 10:23:54 -04:00
hugetlb.c hugetlb: add support for gigantic page allocation at runtime 2014-06-04 16:53:59 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c mm/hwpoison: add '#' to hwpoison_inject 2014-01-21 16:19:48 -08:00
init-mm.c
internal.h mm/readahead.c: inline ra_submit 2014-04-07 16:35:58 -07:00
interval_tree.c
iov_iter.c take iov_iter stuff to mm/iov_iter.c 2014-04-01 23:19:30 -04:00
Kconfig hugetlb: restrict hugepage_migration_support() to x86_64 2014-06-04 16:53:51 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
kmemcheck.c
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c mm: postpone the disabling of kmemleak early logging 2014-05-11 17:55:48 +09:00
ksm.c mm: close PageTail race 2014-03-04 07:55:47 -08:00
list_lru.c mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
maccess.c
madvise.c mm: madvise: fix MADV_WILLNEED on shmem swapouts 2014-05-23 09:37:29 -07:00
Makefile block: move mm/bounce.c to block/ 2014-05-19 20:01:52 -06:00
memblock.c memblock: introduce memblock_alloc_range() 2014-06-04 16:53:57 -07:00
memcontrol.c mm: memcontrol: remove hierarchy restrictions for swappiness and oom_control 2014-06-04 16:53:58 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm/memory_hotplug.c: move register_memory_resource out of the lock_memory_hotplug 2014-01-23 16:36:52 -08:00
memory-failure.c mm/memory-failure.c: fix memory leak by race between poison and unpoison 2014-05-23 09:37:30 -07:00
memory.c x86: define _PAGE_NUMA by reusing software bits on the PMD and PTE levels 2014-06-04 16:53:55 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm, mempolicy: remove per-process flag 2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
mempool.c mm/mempool: warn about __GFP_ZERO usage 2014-06-04 16:53:58 -07:00
migrate.c mm: fix swapops.h:131 bug if remap_file_pages raced migration 2014-03-20 22:09:09 -07:00
mincore.c mm + fs: prepare for non-page entries in page cache radix trees 2014-04-03 16:21:00 -07:00
mlock.c mm: try_to_unmap_cluster() should lock_page() before mlocking 2014-04-07 16:35:57 -07:00
mm_init.c mm: bring back /sys/kernel/mm 2014-01-27 21:02:39 -08:00
mmap.c mm/mmap.c: replace IS_ERR and PTR_ERR with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO 2014-06-04 16:53:58 -07:00
mmu_context.c sched/mm: call finish_arch_post_lock_switch in idle_task_exit and use_mm 2014-02-21 08:50:17 +01:00
mmu_notifier.c mm: audit/fix non-modular users of module_init in core code 2014-01-23 16:36:52 -08:00
mmzone.c mm: numa: Change page last {nid,pid} into {cpu,pid} 2013-10-09 14:47:45 +02:00
mprotect.c mm: move mmu notifier call from change_protection to change_pmd_range 2014-04-07 16:35:50 -07:00
mremap.c mm, thp: close race between mremap() and split_huge_page() 2014-05-11 17:55:48 +09:00
msync.c
nobootmem.c mm/nobootmem.c: mark function as static 2014-04-03 16:21:02 -07:00
nommu.c mm: fix 'ERROR: do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL' and coding style 2014-04-07 16:35:55 -07:00
oom_kill.c mm, oom: base root bonus on current usage 2014-01-30 16:56:56 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm: get rid of __GFP_KMEMCG 2014-06-04 16:53:56 -07:00
page_cgroup.c mm/page_cgroup.c: mark functions as static 2014-04-03 16:21:02 -07:00
page_io.c Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
page_isolation.c mm: memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage 2013-09-11 15:57:48 -07:00
page-writeback.c mm/page-writeback.c: fix divide by zero in pos_ratio_polynom 2014-05-06 13:04:58 -07:00
pagewalk.c mm/pagewalk.c: fix walk_page_range() access of wrong PTEs 2013-10-30 14:27:03 -07:00
percpu-km.c
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c percpu: make pcpu_alloc_chunk() use pcpu_mem_free() instead of kfree() 2014-04-14 16:18:06 -04:00
pgtable-generic.c mm: fix TLB flush race between migration, and change_protection_range 2013-12-18 19:04:51 -08:00
process_vm_access.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-04-12 14:49:50 -07:00
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm/readahead.c: inline ra_submit 2014-04-07 16:35:58 -07:00
rmap.c mm: softdirty: don't forget to save file map softdiry bit on unmap 2014-06-04 16:53:56 -07:00
shmem.c mm: Initialize error in shmem_file_aio_read() 2014-04-13 14:10:26 -07:00
slab_common.c slab: document kmalloc_order 2014-06-04 16:53:58 -07:00
slab.c sl[au]b: charge slabs to kmemcg explicitly 2014-06-04 16:53:56 -07:00
slab.h sl[au]b: charge slabs to kmemcg explicitly 2014-06-04 16:53:56 -07:00
slob.c mm: slab/slub: use page->list consistently instead of page->lru 2014-04-11 10:06:06 +03:00
slub.c mm: get rid of __GFP_KMEMCG 2014-06-04 16:53:56 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm/sparse: use memblock apis for early memory allocations 2014-01-21 16:19:47 -08:00
sparse.c mm: use macros from compiler.h instead of __attribute__((...)) 2014-04-07 16:35:54 -07:00
swap_state.c swap: add a simple detector for inappropriate swapin readahead 2014-02-06 13:48:51 -08:00
swap.c mm: thrash detection-based file cache sizing 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
swapfile.c mm/swap: fix race on swap_info reuse between swapoff and swapon 2014-02-06 13:48:51 -08:00
truncate.c mm: filemap: update find_get_pages_tag() to deal with shadow entries 2014-05-06 13:04:59 -07:00
util.c nick kvfree() from apparmor 2014-05-06 14:02:53 -04:00
vmacache.c mm,vmacache: optimize overflow system-wide flushing 2014-06-04 16:53:57 -07:00
vmalloc.c mm/vmalloc.c: enhance vm_map_ram() comment 2014-04-07 16:35:55 -07:00
vmpressure.c arm, pm, vmpressure: add missing slab.h includes 2014-02-03 13:24:01 -05:00
vmscan.c mm: only force scan in reclaim when none of the LRUs are big enough. 2014-06-04 16:53:56 -07:00
vmstat.c mm,vmacache: add debug data 2014-06-04 16:53:57 -07:00
workingset.c mm: keep page cache radix tree nodes in check 2014-04-03 16:21:01 -07:00
zbud.c mm/zbud: fix some trivial typos in comments 2013-09-11 15:57:35 -07:00
zsmalloc.c zsmalloc: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration 2014-03-20 13:43:45 +01:00
zswap.c Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew) 2014-04-07 16:38:06 -07:00