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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-08-10 11:18:00 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-08-10 11:18:00 -0700
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parentMerge tag 'cxl-for-6.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cxl/cxl (diff)
parentDocumentation/mm: add details about kmap_local_page() and preemption (diff)
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-08-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull remaining MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Three patch series - two that perform cleanups and one feature: - hugetlb_vmemmap cleanups from Muchun Song - hardware poisoning support for 1GB hugepages, from Naoya Horiguchi - highmem documentation fixups from Fabio De Francesco" * tag 'mm-stable-2022-08-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (23 commits) Documentation/mm: add details about kmap_local_page() and preemption highmem: delete a sentence from kmap_local_page() kdocs Documentation/mm: rrefer kmap_local_page() and avoid kmap() Documentation/mm: avoid invalid use of addresses from kmap_local_page() Documentation/mm: don't kmap*() pages which can't come from HIGHMEM highmem: specify that kmap_local_page() is callable from interrupts highmem: remove unneeded spaces in kmap_local_page() kdocs mm, hwpoison: enable memory error handling on 1GB hugepage mm, hwpoison: skip raw hwpoison page in freeing 1GB hugepage mm, hwpoison: make __page_handle_poison returns int mm, hwpoison: set PG_hwpoison for busy hugetlb pages mm, hwpoison: make unpoison aware of raw error info in hwpoisoned hugepage mm, hwpoison, hugetlb: support saving mechanism of raw error pages mm/hugetlb: make pud_huge() and follow_huge_pud() aware of non-present pud entry mm/hugetlb: check gigantic_page_runtime_supported() in return_unused_surplus_pages() mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: use PTRS_PER_PTE instead of PMD_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: move code comments to vmemmap_dedup.rst mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: improve hugetlb_vmemmap code readability mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: replace early_param() with core_param() mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: move vmemmap code related to HugeTLB to hugetlb_vmemmap.c ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst3
4 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 54a9756f2dad..db5de5f0b9d3 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1735,12 +1735,13 @@
hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
[KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP
enabled.
+ Control if HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
memory (7 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
- Format: { [oO][Nn]/Y/y/1 | [oO][Ff]/N/n/0 (default) }
+ Format: { on | off (default) }
- [oO][Nn]/Y/y/1: enable the feature
- [oO][Ff]/N/n/0: disable the feature
+ on: enable HVO
+ off: disable HVO
Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
the default is on.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
index a90330d0a837..8e2727dc18d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
@@ -164,8 +164,8 @@ 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_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP is set, this enables optimizing
- unused vmemmap pages associated with each HugeTLB page.
+ When CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP is set, this enables HugeTLB
+ Vmemmap Optimization (HVO).
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/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst
index 0f56ecd8ac05..a3c9e8ad8fa0 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst
@@ -653,8 +653,8 @@ block might fail:
- Concurrent activity that operates on the same physical memory area, such as
allocating gigantic pages, can result in temporary offlining failures.
-- Out of memory when dissolving huge pages, especially when freeing unused
- vmemmap pages associated with each hugetlb page is enabled.
+- Out of memory when dissolving huge pages, especially when HugeTLB Vmemmap
+ Optimization (HVO) is enabled.
Offlining code may be able to migrate huge page contents, but may not be able
to dissolve the source huge page because it fails allocating (unmovable) pages
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
index f74f722ad702..9b833e439f09 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
@@ -569,8 +569,7 @@ 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
-associated with each HugeTLB page.
+Enable (set to 1) or disable (set to 0) HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO).
Once enabled, the vmemmap pages of subsequent allocation of HugeTLB pages from
buddy allocator will be optimized (7 pages per 2MB HugeTLB page and 4095 pages