[PATCH v6 14/16] mm/hugetlb: Add a kernel parameter hugetlb_free_vmemmap

[Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>]

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>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |  9 +++++++++
 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst    |  3 +++
 mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c                            | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 5debfe238027..d28c3acde965 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 controls freeing unused vmemmap pages associated
+			with each HugeTLB page.
+			Format: { on | off (default) }
+
+			on:  enable the feature
+			off: disable the feature
+
 	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..6a8b57f6d3b7 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.
+hugetlb_free_vmemmap
+	When CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP is set, this enables 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.
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
index 509ca451e232..b2222f8d1245 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
@@ -131,6 +131,22 @@ typedef void (*vmemmap_pte_remap_func_t)(struct page *reuse, pte_t *ptep,
 					 unsigned long start, unsigned long end,
 					 void *priv);
 
+static bool hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled __initdata;
+
+static int __init early_hugetlb_free_vmemmap_param(char *buf)
+{
+	if (!buf)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (!strcmp(buf, "on"))
+		hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled = true;
+	else if (strcmp(buf, "off"))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("hugetlb_free_vmemmap", early_hugetlb_free_vmemmap_param);
+
 static inline unsigned int vmemmap_pages_per_hpage(struct hstate *h)
 {
 	return free_vmemmap_pages_per_hpage(h) + RESERVE_VMEMMAP_NR;
@@ -322,7 +338,8 @@ void __init hugetlb_vmemmap_init(struct hstate *h)
 	unsigned int order = huge_page_order(h);
 	unsigned int vmemmap_pages;
 
-	if (!is_power_of_2(sizeof(struct page))) {
+	if (!is_power_of_2(sizeof(struct page)) ||
+	    !hugetlb_free_vmemmap_enabled) {
 		pr_info("disable freeing vmemmap pages for %s\n", h->name);
 		return;
 	}
-- 
2.11.0