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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>2018-02-01 03:17:10 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-02-01 04:18:37 +0300
commitd6cb41cc44c63492702281b1d329955ca767d399 (patch)
tree785e8c630913c6408b6a9e2d487aa06209ec0785 /kernel
parenta4ef87684108e5fef38cf289ee360f9b87a53cfd (diff)
downloadlinux-d6cb41cc44c63492702281b1d329955ca767d399.tar.xz
mm, hugetlb: remove hugepages_treat_as_movable sysctl
hugepages_treat_as_movable has been introduced by 396faf0303d2 ("Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE") to allow hugetlb allocations from ZONE_MOVABLE even when hugetlb pages were not migrateable. The purpose of the movable zone was different at the time. It aimed at reducing memory fragmentation and hugetlb pages being long lived and large werre not contributing to the fragmentation so it was acceptable to use the zone back then. Things have changed though and the primary purpose of the zone became migratability guarantee. If we allow non migrateable hugetlb pages to be in ZONE_MOVABLE memory hotplug might fail to offline the memory. Remove the knob and only rely on hugepage_migration_supported to allow movable zones. Mel said: : Primarily it was aimed at allowing the hugetlb pool to safely shrink with : the ability to grow it again. The use case was for batched jobs, some of : which needed huge pages and others that did not but didn't want the memory : useless pinned in the huge pages pool. : : I suspect that more users rely on THP than hugetlbfs for flexible use of : huge pages with fallback options so I think that removing the option : should be ok. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171003072619.8654-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reported-by: Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sysctl.c7
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 557d46728577..2fb4e27c636a 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1374,13 +1374,6 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
.mode = 0644,
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
},
- {
- .procname = "hugepages_treat_as_movable",
- .data = &hugepages_treat_as_movable,
- .maxlen = sizeof(int),
- .mode = 0644,
- .proc_handler = proc_dointvec,
- },
{
.procname = "nr_overcommit_hugepages",
.data = NULL,