On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 4:22 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri 20-11-20 14:43:21, Muchun Song wrote:
> > Add a kernel parameter hugetlb_free_vmemmap to disable the feature of
> > freeing unused vmemmap pages associated with each hugetlb page on boot.
>
> As replied to the config patch. This is fine but I would argue that the
> default should be flipped. Saving memory is nice but it comes with
> overhead and therefore should be an opt-in. The config option should
> only guard compile time dependencies not a user choice.
Got it. The default will be flipped in the next version. Thanks.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 +++++++++
> > Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst | 3 +++
> > mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
> > 3 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> > index 5debfe238027..ccf07293cb63 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> > @@ -1551,6 +1551,15 @@
> > Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
> > Format: size[KMG]
> >
> > + hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
> > + [KNL] When CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP is set,
> > + this controls freeing unused vmemmap pages associated
> > + with each HugeTLB page.
> > + Format: { on (default) | off }
> > +
> > + on: enable the feature
> > + off: disable the feature
> > +
> > hung_task_panic=
> > [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
> > Format: 0 | 1
> > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
> > index f7b1c7462991..7d6129ee97dd 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
> > @@ -145,6 +145,9 @@ default_hugepagesz
> >
> > will all result in 256 2M huge pages being allocated. Valid default
> > huge page size is architecture dependent.
> > +hugetlb_free_vmemmap
> > + When CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP is set, this disables freeing
> > + unused vmemmap pages associated each HugeTLB page.
> >
> > When multiple huge page sizes are supported, ``/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages``
> > indicates the current number of pre-allocated huge pages of the default size.
> > diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
> > index 3629165d8158..c958699d1393 100644
> > --- a/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
> > +++ b/mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c
> > @@ -144,6 +144,22 @@ static inline bool vmemmap_pmd_huge(pmd_t *pmd)
> > }
> > #endif
> >
> > +static bool hugetlb_free_vmemmap_disabled __initdata;
> > +
> > +static int __init early_hugetlb_free_vmemmap_param(char *buf)
> > +{
> > + if (!buf)
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > + if (!strcmp(buf, "off"))
> > + hugetlb_free_vmemmap_disabled = true;
> > + else if (strcmp(buf, "on"))
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > + return 0;
> > +}
> > +early_param("hugetlb_free_vmemmap", early_hugetlb_free_vmemmap_param);
> > +
> > static inline unsigned int vmemmap_pages_per_hpage(struct hstate *h)
> > {
> > return free_vmemmap_pages_per_hpage(h) + RESERVE_VMEMMAP_NR;
> > @@ -541,6 +557,11 @@ void __init hugetlb_vmemmap_init(struct hstate *h)
> > unsigned int order = huge_page_order(h);
> > unsigned int vmemmap_pages;
> >
> > + if (hugetlb_free_vmemmap_disabled) {
> > + pr_info("disable free vmemmap pages for %s\n", h->name);
> > + return;
> > + }
> > +
> > vmemmap_pages = ((1 << order) * sizeof(struct page)) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> > /*
> > * The head page and the first tail page are not to be freed to buddy
> > --
> > 2.11.0
>
> --
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
--
Yours,
Muchun
