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authorAlexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>2019-05-14 03:19:04 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-05-14 19:47:47 +0300
commit4eb0716e868eed963967adb0b1b11d9bd8ca1d01 (patch)
tree9a0c02c0e31c0c3c462796f024986a02e3b1fc45 /arch/x86
parent8df995f6bde01de96ce93373785f41c3bd13ad1c (diff)
downloadlinux-4eb0716e868eed963967adb0b1b11d9bd8ca1d01.tar.xz
hugetlb: allow to free gigantic pages regardless of the configuration
On systems without CONTIG_ALLOC activated but that support gigantic pages, boottime reserved gigantic pages can not be freed at all. This patch simply enables the possibility to hand back those pages to memory allocator. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190327063626.18421-5-alex@ghiti.fr Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [sparc] Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirsky <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h4
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 526d95abfe5e..f21bc56e5d7b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ config X86_64
def_bool y
depends on 64BIT
# Options that are inherently 64-bit kernel only:
- select ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE if CONTIG_ALLOC
+ select ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE
select ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128
select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF
select HAVE_ARCH_SOFT_DIRTY
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h
index 7469d321f072..f65cfb48cfdd 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/hugetlb.h
@@ -17,8 +17,4 @@ static inline void arch_clear_hugepage_flags(struct page *page)
{
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE
-static inline bool gigantic_page_supported(void) { return true; }
-#endif
-
#endif /* _ASM_X86_HUGETLB_H */