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* docs: hugetlbpage.rst: fix some warningsMauro Carvalho Chehab2020-06-261-6/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some new command line parameters were added at hugetlbpage.rst. Adjust them in order to properly parse that part of the file, avoiding those warnings: Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst:105: WARNING: Unexpected indentation. Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst:108: WARNING: Unexpected indentation. Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst:109: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst:112: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst:120: WARNING: Unexpected indentation. Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst:121: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst:132: WARNING: Unexpected indentation. Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst:135: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. Fixes: cd9fa28b5351 ("hugetlbfs: clean up command line processing") Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/86b6796b1a84e18b24314ecd29318951c1479ca2.1592895969.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* hugetlbfs: clean up command line processingMike Kravetz2020-06-031-0/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With all hugetlb page processing done in a single file clean up code. - Make code match desired semantics - Update documentation with semantics - Make all warnings and errors messages start with 'HugeTLB:'. - Consistently name command line parsing routines. - Warn if !hugepages_supported() and command line parameters have been specified. - Add comments to code - Describe some of the subtle interactions - Describe semantics of command line arguments This patch also fixes issues with implicitly setting the number of gigantic huge pages to preallocate. Previously on X86 command line, hugepages=2 default_hugepagesz=1G would result in zero 1G pages being preallocated and, # grep HugePages_Total /proc/meminfo HugePages_Total: 0 # sysctl -a | grep nr_hugepages vm.nr_hugepages = 2 vm.nr_hugepages_mempolicy = 2 # cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages 2 After this patch 2 gigantic pages will be preallocated and all the proc, sysfs, sysctl and meminfo files will accurately reflect this. To address the issue with gigantic pages, a small change in behavior was made to command line processing. Previously the command line, hugepages=128 default_hugepagesz=2M hugepagesz=2M hugepages=256 would result in the allocation of 256 2M huge pages. The value 128 would be ignored without any warning. After this patch, 128 2M pages will be allocated and a warning message will be displayed indicating the value of 256 is ignored. This change in behavior is required because allocation of implicitly specified gigantic pages must be done when the default_hugepagesz= is encountered for gigantic pages. Previously the code waited until later in the boot process (hugetlb_init), to allocate pages of default size. However the bootmem allocator required for gigantic allocations is not available at this time. Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> [s390] Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Longpeng <longpeng2@huawei.com> Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com> Cc: Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200417185049.275845-5-mike.kravetz@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* docs/vm: move numa_memory_policy.rst to Documentation/admin-guide/mmMike Rapoport2018-05-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | The document describes userspace API and as such it belongs to Documentation/admin-guide/mm Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* docs/admin-guide/mm: convert plain text cross references to hyperlinksMike Rapoport2018-04-271-1/+2
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* docs/admin-guide/mm: start moving here files from Documentation/vmMike Rapoport2018-04-271-0/+381
Several documents in Documentation/vm fit quite well into the "admin/user guide" category. The documents that don't overload the reader with lots of implementation details and provide coherent description of certain feature can be moved to Documentation/admin-guide/mm. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>