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| author | Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> | 2022-06-17 15:56:50 +0200 |
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| committer | akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-07-04 03:08:49 +0200 |
| commit | 66361095129b3b5d065e6c09cf0c085ef4a8c40f (patch) | |
| tree | 59f536104b945c2d0097f2411f84769472f013a4 /Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl | |
| parent | mm: memory_hotplug: enumerate all supported section flags (diff) | |
| download | linux-66361095129b3b5d065e6c09cf0c085ef4a8c40f.tar.xz linux-66361095129b3b5d065e6c09cf0c085ef4a8c40f.zip | |
mm: memory_hotplug: make hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap compatible with memmap_on_memory
For now, the feature of hugetlb_free_vmemmap is not compatible with the
feature of memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory, and hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. However, someone wants
to make memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory takes precedence over
hugetlb_free_vmemmap since memmap_on_memory makes it more likely to
succeed memory hotplug in close-to-OOM situations. So the decision of
making hugetlb_free_vmemmap take precedence is not wise and elegant.
The proper approach is to have hugetlb_vmemmap.c do the check whether the
section which the HugeTLB pages belong to can be optimized. If the
section's vmemmap pages are allocated from the added memory block itself,
hugetlb_free_vmemmap should refuse to optimize the vmemmap, otherwise, do
the optimization. Then both kernel parameters are compatible. So this
patch introduces VmemmapSelfHosted to mask any non-optimizable vmemmap
pages. The hugetlb_vmemmap can use this flag to detect if a vmemmap page
can be optimized.
[songmuchun@bytedance.com: walk vmemmap page tables to avoid false-positive]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220620110616.12056-3-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220617135650.74901-3-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Co-developed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst index 4a440a7cfeb0..f74f722ad702 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst @@ -565,9 +565,8 @@ See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap ======================== -This knob is not available when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory (kernel parameter) -is configured or the size of 'struct page' (a structure defined in -include/linux/mm_types.h) is not power of two (an unusual system config could +This knob is not available when the size of 'struct page' (a structure defined +in include/linux/mm_types.h) is not power of two (an unusual system config could result in this). Enable (set to 1) or disable (set to 0) the feature of optimizing vmemmap pages |