The purpose of introducing HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP is to configure whether to enable the feature of freeing unused vmemmap associated with HugeTLB pages. And this is just for dependency check. Now only support x86-64. Because this config depends on HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE. And the function of the register_page_bootmem_info() is aimed to register bootmem info. So we should register bootmem info when this config is enabled. Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 2 +- fs/Kconfig | 15 +++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 16 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..4c3a9c614983 100644 --- a/fs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/Kconfig @@ -245,6 +245,21 @@ config HUGETLBFS config HUGETLB_PAGE def_bool HUGETLBFS +config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP + def_bool HUGETLB_PAGE + depends on X86_64 + 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 HugeTLB page of the pmd level mapping and (PAGE_SIZE - 2) + pages per HugeTLB page of the pud level mapping. + + 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