The patch titled Subject: hugetlb: have CONFIG_HUGETLBFS select CONFIG_PADATA has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is hugetlb-have-config_hugetlbfs-select-config_padata.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/hugetlb-have-config_hugetlbfs-select-config_padata.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Gang Li <gang.li@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: hugetlb: have CONFIG_HUGETLBFS select CONFIG_PADATA Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 22:04:19 +0800 Allow hugetlb use padata_do_multithreaded for parallel initialization. Select CONFIG_PADATA in this case. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240222140422.393911-7-gang.li@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Gang Li <ligang.bdlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/Kconfig~hugetlb-have-config_hugetlbfs-select-config_padata +++ a/fs/Kconfig @@ -261,6 +261,7 @@ menuconfig HUGETLBFS depends on X86 || SPARC64 || ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS || BROKEN depends on (SYSFS || SYSCTL) select MEMFD_CREATE + select PADATA if SMP help hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from gang.li@xxxxxxxxx are hugetlb-code-clean-for-hugetlb_hstate_alloc_pages.patch hugetlb-split-hugetlb_hstate_alloc_pages.patch hugetlb-pass-next_nid_to_alloc-directly-to-for_each_node_mask_to_alloc.patch padata-dispatch-works-on-different-nodes.patch padata-downgrade-padata_do_multithreaded-to-serial-execution-for-non-smp.patch hugetlb-have-config_hugetlbfs-select-config_padata.patch hugetlb-parallelize-2m-hugetlb-allocation-and-initialization.patch hugetlb-parallelize-1g-hugetlb-initialization.patch