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Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2025 16:40:43 +0100
From: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@...il.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v3 0/6] prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised
(Resending this as forgot to include PATCH v2 in subject prefix)
This will allow individual processes to opt-out of THP = "always"
into THP = "madvise", without affecting other workloads on the system.
This has been extensively discussed on the mailing list and has been
summarized very well by David in the first patch which also includes
the links to alternatives, please refer to the first patch commit message
for the motivation for this series.
Patch 1 adds the PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED flag to implement this, along
with the MMF changes.
Patch 2 is a cleanup patch for tva_flags that will allow the forced collapse
case to be transmitted to vma_thp_disabled (which is done in patch 3).
Patch 4 adds documentation for PR_SET_THP_DISABLE/PR_GET_THP_DISABLE.
Patches 5-6 implement the selftests for PR_SET_THP_DISABLE for completely
disabling THPs (old behaviour) and only enabling it at advise
(PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED).
The patches are tested on top of 4ad831303eca6ae518c3b3d86838a2a04b90ec41
from mm-new.
v2 -> v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250731122825.2102184-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com/
- Fix sign off and added ack for patch 1 (Lorenzo and Zi Yan)
- Fix up commit message, comments and variable names in patch 2 and 3 (Lorenzo)
- Added documentation for PR_SET_THP_DISABLE/PR_GET_THP_DISABLE (Lorenzo)
- remove struct test_results and enum thp_policy for prctl tests (David)
v1 -> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250725162258.1043176-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com/
- Change thp_push_settings to thp_write_settings (David)
- Add tests for all the system policies for the prctl call (David)
- Small fixes and cleanups
David Hildenbrand (3):
prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to optionally exclude VM_HUGEPAGE
mm/huge_memory: convert "tva_flags" to "enum tva_type"
mm/huge_memory: respect MADV_COLLAPSE with
PR_THP_DISABLE_EXCEPT_ADVISED
Usama Arif (3):
docs: transhuge: document process level THP controls
selftests: prctl: introduce tests for disabling THPs completely
selftests: prctl: introduce tests for disabling THPs except for
madvise
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 38 +++
Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 5 +-
fs/proc/array.c | 2 +-
fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 4 +-
include/linux/huge_mm.h | 60 ++--
include/linux/mm_types.h | 13 +-
include/uapi/linux/prctl.h | 10 +
kernel/sys.c | 59 +++-
mm/huge_memory.c | 11 +-
mm/khugepaged.c | 19 +-
mm/memory.c | 20 +-
mm/shmem.c | 2 +-
tools/testing/selftests/mm/.gitignore | 1 +
tools/testing/selftests/mm/Makefile | 1 +
.../testing/selftests/mm/prctl_thp_disable.c | 280 ++++++++++++++++++
tools/testing/selftests/mm/thp_settings.c | 9 +-
tools/testing/selftests/mm/thp_settings.h | 1 +
17 files changed, 464 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/mm/prctl_thp_disable.c
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