On 2022/1/18 10:52, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
Excerpts from Kefeng Wang's message of December 28, 2021 12:59 am:
Introduce HUGE_VMALLOC_DEFAULT_ENABLED and make it default y, this
let user to choose whether or not enable huge vmalloc mappings by
default.
Meanwhile, add new hugevmalloc=on/off parameter to enable or disable
this feature at boot time, nohugevmalloc is still supported and
equivalent to hugevmalloc=off.
Runtime options are bad enough, Kconfig and boot options are even worse.
nohugevmalloc is like blacklists, on the other hand, Add a
HUGE_VMALLOC_DEFAULT_ENABLED
to close hugevmalloc default and enable it only via hugevmalloc=on is
whiteList.
Only parts of our products wants this feature, we add some interfaces
which only
alloc hugevmalloc for them, eg,
vmap_hugepage/vmalloc_hugepage/remap_vmalloc_hugepage_range..
for our products, but it's not the choice of most products, also add
nohugevmalloc
for most products is expensive, so this is the reason for adding the patch.
more config/cmdline are more flexible for test/products，
The 'nohugevmalloc' option mirrors 'nohugeiomap' and is not expected to
ever be understood by an administrator unless a kernel developer is
working with them to hunt down a regression.
IMO there should be no new options. You could switch it off for
CONFIG_BASE_SMALL perhaps, and otherwise just try to work on heuristics
first. Bring in new options once it's proven they're needed.
but yes, this patch is optional， could others give some more comments
about this way？
Thanks.
Aside from that, thanks for working on these ports, great work.
Thanks,
Nick
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