+ hugetlb-document-the-demote-sysfs-interfaces.patch added to -mm tree

+ hugetlb-document-the-demote-sysfs-interfaces.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: hugetlb: document the demote sysfs interfaces
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     hugetlb-document-the-demote-sysfs-interfaces.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/hugetlb-document-the-demote-sysfs-interfaces.patch
and later at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/hugetlb-document-the-demote-sysfs-interfaces.patch

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From: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Subject: hugetlb: document the demote sysfs interfaces

Describe demote and demote_size interfaces.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210816224953.157796-6-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst |   29 +++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst~hugetlb-document-the-demote-sysfs-interfaces
+++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
@@ -234,8 +234,12 @@ will exist, of the form::
 
 	hugepages-${size}kB
 
-Inside each of these directories, the same set of files will exist::
+Inside each of these directories, the set of files contained in ``/proc``
+will exist.  In addition, two additional interfaces for demoting huge
+pages will exist::
 
+        demote
+        demote_size
 	nr_hugepages
 	nr_hugepages_mempolicy
 	nr_overcommit_hugepages
@@ -243,7 +247,28 @@ Inside each of these directories, the sa
 	resv_hugepages
 	surplus_hugepages
 
-which function as described above for the default huge page-sized case.
+The demote interfaces provide the ability to split a huge page into
+smaller huge pages.  For example, the x86 architecture supports both
+1GB and 2MB huge pages sizes.  A 1GB huge page can be split into 512
+2MB huge pages.  The demote interfaces are:
+
+demote_size
+        is the size of demoted pages.  When a page is demoted a corresponding
+        number of huge pages of demote_size will be created.  For huge pages
+        of the smallest supported size (2MB on x86), demote_size will be the
+        system page size (PAGE_SIZE).  If demote_size is the system page size
+        then demoting a page will simply free the huge page.  demote_size is
+        a read only interface.
+
+demote
+        is used to demote a number of huge pages.  A user with root privileges
+        can write to this file.  It may not be possible to demote the
+        requested number of huge pages.  To determine how many pages were
+        actually demoted, compare the value of nr_hugepages before and after
+        writing to the demote interface.  demote is a write only interface.
+
+The interfaces which are the same as in ``/proc`` function as described
+above for the default huge page-sized case.
 
 .. _mem_policy_and_hp_alloc:
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from mike.kravetz@oracle.com are

hugetlb-simplify-prep_compound_gigantic_page-ref-count-racing-code.patch
hugetlb-drop-ref-count-earlier-after-page-allocation.patch
hugetlb-before-freeing-hugetlb-page-set-dtor-to-appropriate-value.patch
hugetlb-add-demote-hugetlb-page-sysfs-interfaces.patch
hugetlb-add-hpagecma-flag-and-code-to-free-non-gigantic-pages-in-cma.patch
hugetlb-add-demote-bool-to-gigantic-page-routines.patch
hugetlb-add-hugetlb-demote-page-support.patch
hugetlb-document-the-demote-sysfs-interfaces.patch
hugetlb-vmemmap-optimizations-when-demoting-hugetlb-pages.patch
hugetlb-prepare-destroy-and-prep-routines-for-vmemmap-optimized-pages.patch
hugetlb-optimized-demote-vmemmap-optimizatized-pages.patch