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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:43:07 +0800 From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com> To: corbet@....net, mike.kravetz@...cle.com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, bp@...en8.de, x86@...nel.org, hpa@...or.com, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com, luto@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, paulmck@...nel.org, mchehab+huawei@...nel.org, pawan.kumar.gupta@...ux.intel.com, rdunlap@...radead.org, oneukum@...e.com, anshuman.khandual@....com, jroedel@...e.de, almasrymina@...gle.com, rientjes@...gle.com, willy@...radead.org, osalvador@...e.de, mhocko@...e.com, song.bao.hua@...ilicon.com Cc: duanxiongchun@...edance.com, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com> Subject: [PATCH v5 03/21] mm/hugetlb: Introduce a new config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP The purpose of introducing HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP is to configure whether to enable the feature of freeing unused vmemmap associated with HugeTLB pages. Now only support x86. Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com> --- arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 2 +- fs/Kconfig | 14 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c index 0a45f062826e..0435bee2e172 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c @@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@ static struct kcore_list kcore_vsyscall; static void __init register_page_bootmem_info(void) { -#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA +#if defined(CONFIG_NUMA) || defined(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP) int i; for_each_online_node(i) diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig index 976e8b9033c4..4961dd488444 100644 --- a/fs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/Kconfig @@ -245,6 +245,20 @@ config HUGETLBFS config HUGETLB_PAGE def_bool HUGETLBFS +config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP + def_bool HUGETLB_PAGE + depends on X86 + depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP + depends on HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE + help + When using HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP, the system can save up some + memory from pre-allocated HugeTLB pages when they are not used. + 6 pages per 2MB HugeTLB page and 4094 per 1GB HugeTLB page. + + When the pages are going to be used or freed up, the vmemmap array + representing that range needs to be remapped again and the pages + we discarded earlier need to be rellocated again. + config MEMFD_CREATE def_bool TMPFS || HUGETLBFS -- 2.11.0
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