From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
corbet@lwn.net, mike.kravetz@oracle.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com,
dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, luto@kernel.org,
peterz@infradead.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, paulmck@kernel.org,
mchehab+huawei@kernel.org, pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com,
oneukum@suse.com, anshuman.khandual@arm.com, jroedel@suse.de,
almasrymina@google.com, rientjes@google.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 20/24] mm/hugetlb: Add a kernel parameter hugetlb_free_vmemmap
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 19:10:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <defc8d4f-b143-d4ae-f609-fd22624aafc3@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200915125947.26204-21-songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Hi,
Please see comments below.
On 9/15/20 5:59 AM, Muchun Song wrote:
> Add a kernel parameter hugetlb_free_vmemmap to disable the feature of
> freeing unused vmemmap pages associated with each hugetlb page on boot.
>
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
> ---
> .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 ++++++++
> Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst | 3 +++
> mm/hugetlb.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index 5debfe238027..69d18ef6f66b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -1551,6 +1551,15 @@
> Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
> Format: size[KMG]
>
> + hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
> + [KNL] When CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP is set,
> + this disables freeing unused vmemmap pages associated
this controls
> + each HugeTLB page.
with each HugeTLB page.
> + Format: { on (default) | off }
> +
> + on: enable the feature
> + off: dosable the feature
disable
> +
> hung_task_panic=
> [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
> Format: 0 | 1
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
> index f7b1c7462991..7d6129ee97dd 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
> @@ -145,6 +145,9 @@ default_hugepagesz
>
> will all result in 256 2M huge pages being allocated. Valid default
> huge page size is architecture dependent.
insert blank line here.
> +hugetlb_free_vmemmap
> + When CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP is set, this disables freeing
> + unused vmemmap pages associated 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.
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-16 2:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-15 12:59 [RFC PATCH 00/24] mm/hugetlb: Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 01/24] mm/memory_hotplug: Move bootmem info registration API to bootmem_info.c Muchun Song
2020-09-29 22:46 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 02/24] mm/memory_hotplug: Move {get,put}_page_bootmem() " Muchun Song
2020-09-29 23:30 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 03/24] mm/hugetlb: Introduce a new config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP Muchun Song
2020-09-16 2:13 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-09-29 23:41 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-09-30 2:56 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 04/24] mm/hugetlb: Register bootmem info when CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 05/24] mm/hugetlb: Introduce nr_free_vmemmap_pages in the struct hstate Muchun Song
2020-09-30 22:41 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-10-01 2:57 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 06/24] mm/hugetlb: Introduce pgtable allocation/freeing helpers Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 07/24] mm/hugetlb: Add freeing unused vmemmap pages support for x86 Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 08/24] mm/bootmem_info: Introduce {free,prepare}_vmemmap_page() Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 09/24] x86/mm: Introduce VMEMMAP_SIZE/VMEMMAP_END macro Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 10/24] mm/hugetlb: Free the vmemmap pages associated with each hugetlb page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 11/24] mm/hugetlb: Add vmemmap_pmd_huge macro for x86 Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 12/24] mm/hugetlb: Defer freeing of hugetlb pages Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 13/24] mm/hugetlb: Allocate the vmemmap pages associated with each hugetlb page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 14/24] mm/hugetlb: Introduce remap_huge_page_pmd_vmemmap helper Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 15/24] mm/hugetlb: Use PG_slab to indicate split pmd Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 16/24] mm/hugetlb: Support freeing vmemmap pages of gigantic page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 17/24] mm/hugetlb: Add a BUILD_BUG_ON to check if struct page size is a power of two Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 18/24] mm/hugetlb: Clear PageHWPoison on the non-error memory page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 19/24] mm/hugetlb: Flush work when dissolving hugetlb page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 20/24] mm/hugetlb: Add a kernel parameter hugetlb_free_vmemmap Muchun Song
2020-09-16 2:10 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2020-09-16 2:50 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 21/24] mm/hugetlb: Merge pte to huge pmd only for gigantic page Muchun Song
2020-09-20 9:59 ` Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 22/24] mm/hugetlb: Implement vmemmap_pmd_mkhuge macro Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 23/24] mm/hugetlb: Gather discrete indexes of tail page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 12:59 ` [RFC PATCH 24/24] mm/hugetlb: Add BUILD_BUG_ON to catch invalid usage of tail struct page Muchun Song
2020-09-15 14:32 ` [RFC PATCH 00/24] mm/hugetlb: Free some vmemmap pages of hugetlb page Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-15 14:53 ` Dave Hansen
2020-09-15 15:28 ` [External] " Muchun Song
2020-09-15 15:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-15 17:32 ` Muchun Song
2020-09-15 17:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-15 18:03 ` Muchun Song
2020-09-15 18:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-16 2:45 ` Muchun Song
2020-09-29 21:58 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-09-30 3:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-10-07 21:12 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-10-09 4:13 ` [External] " Muchun Song
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