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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-05-26 22:32:41 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-05-26 22:32:41 +0300 |
commit | 98931dd95fd489fcbfa97da563505a6f071d7c77 (patch) | |
tree | 44683fc4a92efa614acdca2742a7ff19d26da1e3 /Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl | |
parent | df202b452fe6c6d6f1351bad485e2367ef1e644e (diff) | |
parent | f403f22f8ccb12860b2b62fec3173c6ccd45938b (diff) | |
download | linux-98931dd95fd489fcbfa97da563505a6f071d7c77.tar.xz |
Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Almost all of MM here. A few things are still getting finished off,
reviewed, etc.
- Yang Shi has improved the behaviour of khugepaged collapsing of
readonly file-backed transparent hugepages.
- Johannes Weiner has arranged for zswap memory use to be tracked and
managed on a per-cgroup basis.
- Munchun Song adds a /proc knob ("hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap") for
runtime enablement of the recent huge page vmemmap optimization
feature.
- Baolin Wang contributes a series to fix some issues around hugetlb
pagetable invalidation.
- Zhenwei Pi has fixed some interactions between hwpoisoned pages and
virtualization.
- Tong Tiangen has enabled the use of the presently x86-only
page_table_check debugging feature on arm64 and riscv.
- David Vernet has done some fixup work on the memcg selftests.
- Peter Xu has taught userfaultfd to handle write protection faults
against shmem- and hugetlbfs-backed files.
- More DAMON development from SeongJae Park - adding online tuning of
the feature and support for monitoring of fixed virtual address
ranges. Also easier discovery of which monitoring operations are
available.
- Nadav Amit has done some optimization of TLB flushing during
mprotect().
- Neil Brown continues to labor away at improving our swap-over-NFS
support.
- David Hildenbrand has some fixes to anon page COWing versus
get_user_pages().
- Peng Liu fixed some errors in the core hugetlb code.
- Joao Martins has reduced the amount of memory consumed by
device-dax's compound devmaps.
- Some cleanups of the arch-specific pagemap code from Anshuman
Khandual.
- Muchun Song has found and fixed some errors in the TLB flushing of
transparent hugepages.
- Roman Gushchin has done more work on the memcg selftests.
... and, of course, many smaller fixes and cleanups. Notably, the
customary million cleanup serieses from Miaohe Lin"
* tag 'mm-stable-2022-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (381 commits)
mm: kfence: use PAGE_ALIGNED helper
selftests: vm: add the "settings" file with timeout variable
selftests: vm: add "test_hmm.sh" to TEST_FILES
selftests: vm: check numa_available() before operating "merge_across_nodes" in ksm_tests
selftests: vm: add migration to the .gitignore
selftests/vm/pkeys: fix typo in comment
ksm: fix typo in comment
selftests: vm: add process_mrelease tests
Revert "mm/vmscan: never demote for memcg reclaim"
mm/kfence: print disabling or re-enabling message
include/trace/events/percpu.h: cleanup for "percpu: improve percpu_alloc_percpu event trace"
include/trace/events/mmflags.h: cleanup for "tracing: incorrect gfp_t conversion"
mm: fix a potential infinite loop in start_isolate_page_range()
MAINTAINERS: add Muchun as co-maintainer for HugeTLB
zram: fix Kconfig dependency warning
mm/shmem: fix shmem folio swapoff hang
cgroup: fix an error handling path in alloc_pagecache_max_30M()
mm: damon: use HPAGE_PMD_SIZE
tracing: incorrect isolate_mote_t cast in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate
nodemask.h: fix compilation error with GCC12
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl')
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst index f4804ce37c58..5c9aa171a0d3 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - overcommit_memory - overcommit_ratio - page-cluster +- page_lock_unfairness - panic_on_oom - percpu_pagelist_high_fraction - stat_interval @@ -561,6 +562,45 @@ Change the minimum size of the hugepage pool. See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst +hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap +======================== + +This knob is not available when memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory (kernel parameter) +is configured or the size of 'struct page' (a structure defined in +include/linux/mm_types.h) is not power of two (an unusual system config could +result in this). + +Enable (set to 1) or disable (set to 0) the feature of optimizing vmemmap pages +associated with each HugeTLB page. + +Once enabled, the vmemmap pages of subsequent allocation of HugeTLB pages from +buddy allocator will be optimized (7 pages per 2MB HugeTLB page and 4095 pages +per 1GB HugeTLB page), whereas already allocated HugeTLB pages will not be +optimized. When those optimized HugeTLB pages are freed from the HugeTLB pool +to the buddy allocator, the vmemmap pages representing that range needs to be +remapped again and the vmemmap pages discarded earlier need to be rellocated +again. If your use case is that HugeTLB pages are allocated 'on the fly' (e.g. +never explicitly allocating HugeTLB pages with 'nr_hugepages' but only set +'nr_overcommit_hugepages', those overcommitted HugeTLB pages are allocated 'on +the fly') instead of being pulled from the HugeTLB pool, you should weigh the +benefits of memory savings against the more overhead (~2x slower than before) +of allocation or freeing HugeTLB pages between the HugeTLB pool and the buddy +allocator. Another behavior to note is that if the system is under heavy memory +pressure, it could prevent the user from freeing HugeTLB pages from the HugeTLB +pool to the buddy allocator since the allocation of vmemmap pages could be +failed, you have to retry later if your system encounter this situation. + +Once disabled, the vmemmap pages of subsequent allocation of HugeTLB pages from +buddy allocator will not be optimized meaning the extra overhead at allocation +time from buddy allocator disappears, whereas already optimized HugeTLB pages +will not be affected. If you want to make sure there are no optimized HugeTLB +pages, you can set "nr_hugepages" to 0 first and then disable this. Note that +writing 0 to nr_hugepages will make any "in use" HugeTLB pages become surplus +pages. So, those surplus pages are still optimized until they are no longer +in use. You would need to wait for those surplus pages to be released before +there are no optimized pages in the system. + + nr_hugepages_mempolicy ====================== @@ -754,6 +794,14 @@ extra faults and I/O delays for following faults if they would have been part of that consecutive pages readahead would have brought in. +page_lock_unfairness +==================== + +This value determines the number of times that the page lock can be +stolen from under a waiter. After the lock is stolen the number of times +specified in this file (default is 5), the "fair lock handoff" semantics +will apply, and the waiter will only be awakened if the lock can be taken. + panic_on_oom ============ |