The patch titled thp: config_transparent_hugepage has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is thp-config_transparent_hugepage.patch 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/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: thp: config_transparent_hugepage From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Add config option. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/Kconfig | 2 +- mm/Kconfig | 14 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/Kconfig~thp-config_transparent_hugepage fs/Kconfig --- a/fs/Kconfig~thp-config_transparent_hugepage +++ a/fs/Kconfig @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ config HUGETLBFS If unsure, say N. config HUGETLB_PAGE - def_bool HUGETLBFS + def_bool HUGETLBFS || TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE source "fs/configfs/Kconfig" diff -puN mm/Kconfig~thp-config_transparent_hugepage mm/Kconfig --- a/mm/Kconfig~thp-config_transparent_hugepage +++ a/mm/Kconfig @@ -302,6 +302,20 @@ config NOMMU_INITIAL_TRIM_EXCESS See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information. +config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE + bool "Transparent Hugepage Support" if EMBEDDED + depends on X86_64 && MMU + default y + help + Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and + huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible. + This feature can improve computing performance to certain + applications by speeding up page faults during memory + allocation, by reducing the number of tlb misses and by speeding + up the pagetable walking. + + If memory constrained on embedded, you may want to say N. + # # UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator # _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-compaction-add-trace-events-for-memory-compaction-activity.patch mm-vmscan-convert-lumpy_mode-into-a-bitmask.patch mm-vmscan-reclaim-order-0-and-use-compaction-instead-of-lumpy-reclaim.patch mm-vmscan-reclaim-order-0-and-use-compaction-instead-of-lumpy-reclaim-fix.patch mm-migration-allow-migration-to-operate-asynchronously-and-avoid-synchronous-compaction-in-the-faster-path.patch mm-migration-allow-migration-to-operate-asynchronously-and-avoid-synchronous-compaction-in-the-faster-path-fix.patch mm-migration-cleanup-migrate_pages-api-by-matching-types-for-offlining-and-sync.patch mm-compaction-perform-a-faster-migration-scan-when-migrating-asynchronously.patch mm-vmscan-rename-lumpy_mode-to-reclaim_mode.patch mm-vmscan-rename-lumpy_mode-to-reclaim_mode-fix.patch thp-ksm-free-swap-when-swapcache-page-is-replaced.patch thp-fix-bad_page-to-show-the-real-reason-the-page-is-bad.patch thp-transparent-hugepage-support-documentation.patch thp-mm-define-madv_hugepage.patch thp-compound_lock.patch thp-alter-compound-get_page-put_page.patch thp-put_page-recheck-pagehead-after-releasing-the-compound_lock.patch thp-update-futex-compound-knowledge.patch thp-clear-compound-mapping.patch thp-add-native_set_pmd_at.patch thp-add-pmd-paravirt-ops.patch thp-no-paravirt-version-of-pmd-ops.patch thp-export-maybe_mkwrite.patch thp-comment-reminder-in-destroy_compound_page.patch thp-config_transparent_hugepage.patch thp-special-pmd_trans_-functions.patch thp-add-pmd-mangling-generic-functions.patch thp-add-pmd-mangling-functions-to-x86.patch thp-bail-out-gup_fast-on-splitting-pmd.patch thp-pte-alloc-trans-splitting.patch thp-add-pmd-mmu_notifier-helpers.patch thp-clear-page-compound.patch thp-add-pmd_huge_pte-to-mm_struct.patch thp-split_huge_page_mm-vma.patch thp-split_huge_page-paging.patch thp-clear_copy_huge_page.patch thp-_gfp_no_kswapd.patch thp-dont-alloc-harder-for-gfp-nomemalloc-even-if-nowait.patch thp-transparent-hugepage-core.patch thp-split_huge_page-anon_vma-ordering-dependency.patch thp-verify-pmd_trans_huge-isnt-leaking.patch thp-madvisemadv_hugepage.patch thp-add-pagetranscompound.patch thp-pmd_trans_huge-migrate-bugcheck.patch thp-memcg-compound.patch thp-transhuge-memcg-commit-tail-pages-at-charge.patch thp-memcg-huge-memory.patch thp-transparent-hugepage-vmstat.patch thp-khugepaged.patch thp-khugepaged-vma-merge.patch thp-skip-transhuge-pages-in-ksm-for-now.patch thp-remove-pg_buddy.patch thp-add-x86-32bit-support.patch thp-mincore-transparent-hugepage-support.patch thp-add-pmd_modify.patch thp-mprotect-pass-vma-down-to-page-table-walkers.patch thp-mprotect-transparent-huge-page-support.patch thp-set-recommended-min-free-kbytes.patch thp-enable-direct-defrag.patch thp-add-numa-awareness-to-hugepage-allocations.patch thp-allocate-memory-in-khugepaged-outside-of-mmap_sem-write-mode.patch thp-transparent-hugepage-config-choice.patch thp-select-config_compaction-if-transparent_hugepage-enabled.patch thp-transhuge-isolate_migratepages.patch thp-avoid-breaking-huge-pmd-invariants-in-case-of-vma_adjust-failures.patch thp-dont-allow-transparent-hugepage-support-without-pse.patch thp-mmu_notifier_test_young.patch thp-freeze-khugepaged-and-ksmd.patch thp-use-compaction-in-kswapd-for-gfp_atomic-order-0.patch thp-use-compaction-for-all-allocation-orders.patch thp-disable-transparent-hugepages-by-default-on-small-systems.patch thp-fix-anon-memory-statistics-with-transparent-hugepages.patch thp-scale-nr_rotated-to-balance-memory-pressure.patch thp-transparent-hugepage-sysfs-meminfo.patch thp-add-debug-checks-for-mapcount-related-invariants.patch thp-fix-memory-failure-hugetlbfs-vs-thp-collision.patch thp-compound_trans_order.patch thp-mm-define-madv_nohugepage.patch thp-madvisemadv_nohugepage.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html