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x86: add hugepagesz option on 64-bit
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x86-add-hugepagesz-option-on-64-bit.patch
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Subject: x86: add hugepagesz option on 64-bit
From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
Add an hugepagesz=... option similar to IA64, PPC etc. to x86-64.
This finally allows to select GB pages for hugetlbfs in x86 now that all
the infrastructure is in place.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 11 +++++++++--
arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
include/asm-x86/page.h | 2 ++
3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt~x86-add-hugepagesz-option-on-64-bit Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt~x86-add-hugepagesz-option-on-64-bit
+++ a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -757,8 +757,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters.
hisax= [HW,ISDN]
See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax.
- hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] Maximal number of HugeTLB pages.
- hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
+ hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
+ hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
+ On x86 this option can be specified multiple times
+ interleaved with hugepages= to reserve huge pages
+ of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on x86-64
+ are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G (when the
+ CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag)
+ Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time
+ using hugepages= and not freed afterwards.
i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
diff -puN arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c~x86-add-hugepagesz-option-on-64-bit arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c
--- a/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c~x86-add-hugepagesz-option-on-64-bit
+++ a/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -425,3 +425,20 @@ hugetlb_get_unmapped_area(struct file *f
#endif /*HAVE_ARCH_HUGETLB_UNMAPPED_AREA*/
+#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+static __init int setup_hugepagesz(char *opt)
+{
+ unsigned long ps = memparse(opt, &opt);
+ if (ps == PMD_SIZE) {
+ hugetlb_add_hstate(PMD_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT);
+ } else if (ps == PUD_SIZE && cpu_has_gbpages) {
+ hugetlb_add_hstate(PUD_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT);
+ } else {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "hugepagesz: Unsupported page size %lu M\n",
+ ps >> 20);
+ return 0;
+ }
+ return 1;
+}
+__setup("hugepagesz=", setup_hugepagesz);
+#endif
diff -puN include/asm-x86/page.h~x86-add-hugepagesz-option-on-64-bit include/asm-x86/page.h
--- a/include/asm-x86/page.h~x86-add-hugepagesz-option-on-64-bit
+++ a/include/asm-x86/page.h
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@
#define HPAGE_MASK (~(HPAGE_SIZE - 1))
#define HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER (HPAGE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+#define HUGE_MAX_HSTATE 2
+
/* to align the pointer to the (next) page boundary */
#define PAGE_ALIGN(addr) (((addr)+PAGE_SIZE-1)&PAGE_MASK)
_
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mspec-convert-nopfn-to-fault.patch
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hugetlb-factor-out-prep_new_huge_page.patch
hugetlb-modular-state-for-hugetlb-page-size.patch
hugetlb-modular-state-for-hugetlb-page-size-checkpatch-fixes.patch
hugetlb-multiple-hstates-for-multiple-page-sizes.patch
hugetlb-multiple-hstates-for-multiple-page-sizes-checkpatch-fixes.patch
hugetlbfs-per-mount-huge-page-sizes.patch
hugetlb-new-sysfs-interface.patch
hugetlb-abstract-numa-round-robin-selection.patch
mm-introduce-non-panic-alloc_bootmem.patch
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hugetlb-support-larger-than-max_order.patch
hugetlb-support-boot-allocate-different-sizes.patch
hugetlb-printk-cleanup.patch
hugetlb-introduce-pud_huge.patch
x86-support-gb-hugepages-on-64-bit.patch
x86-add-hugepagesz-option-on-64-bit.patch
hugetlb-override-default-huge-page-size.patch
hugetlb-allow-arch-overried-hugepage-allocation.patch
powerpc-function-to-allocate-gigantic-hugepages.patch
powerpc-scan-device-tree-for-gigantic-pages.patch
powerpc-define-support-for-16g-hugepages.patch
fs-check-for-statfs-overflow.patch
powerpc-support-multiple-hugepage-sizes.patch
x86-implement-pte_special.patch
mm-introduce-get_user_pages_fast.patch
mm-introduce-get_user_pages_fast-checkpatch-fixes.patch
x86-lockless-get_user_pages_fast.patch
x86-lockless-get_user_pages_fast-checkpatch-fixes.patch
x86-lockless-get_user_pages_fast-fix.patch
x86-lockless-get_user_pages_fast-fix-warning.patch
dio-use-get_user_pages_fast.patch
splice-use-get_user_pages_fast.patch
mm-readahead-scan-lockless.patch
radix-tree-add-gang_lookup_slot-gang_lookup_slot_tag.patch
mm-speculative-page-references.patch
mm-lockless-pagecache.patch
mm-spinlock-tree_lock.patch
powerpc-implement-pte_special.patch
powerpc-lockless-get_user_pages_fast.patch
vmscan-move-isolate_lru_page-to-vmscanc.patch
vmscan-mlocked-pages-are-non-reclaimable.patch
vmscan-handle-mlocked-pages-during-map-remap-unmap.patch
vmscan-mlocked-pages-statistics.patch
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