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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst | 2 |
5 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index bab2b0bf5988..8c06271835b0 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1731,12 +1731,13 @@ 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 diff --git a/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst b/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst index c9c495f62d12..7d7a161aa364 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ A vmemmap diet for HugeTLB and Device DAX HugeTLB ======= +This section is to explain how HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) works. + The struct page structures (page structs) are used to describe a physical page frame. By default, there is a one-to-one mapping from a page frame to it's corresponding page struct. |