Re: [PATCH] mm, memcg: Add memory.transparent_hugepage_disabled

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On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 06:31:56PM +0800, Hui Zhu wrote:
> > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled is the only interface to
> > control if the application can use THP in system level.
> 
> No. We have prctl(PR_SET_THP_DISABLE) too.
> 

Yeah, I think this is the key point since this can be inherited across 
fork and thus you already have the ability to disable thp for a process 
where you cannot even modify the binary to do MADV_NOHUGEPAGE.




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