From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [External] Re: [RFC PATCH 20/24] mm/hugetlb: Add a kernel parameter hugetlb_free_vmemmap
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 10:50:08 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMZfGtVv_8GR7c4syah8PNH6FBS8H7FQesBYr_qQRQaUEgZbsQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <defc8d4f-b143-d4ae-f609-fd22624aafc3@infradead.org>
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:11 AM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Thanks for your comments.
>
> --
> ~Randy
>
--
Yours,
Muchun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-16 2:50 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
2020-09-16 2:50 ` Muchun Song [this message]
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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