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authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>2012-12-12 13:51:12 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-12 17:38:32 -0800
commit79da5407eeadc740fbf4b45d6df7d7f8e6adaf2c (patch)
treea9f1ca92b2711bb84a4707c904fcada24614d60e /Documentation
parentd8a8e1f0da3d29d7268b3300c96a059d63901b76 (diff)
downloadlinux-79da5407eeadc740fbf4b45d6df7d7f8e6adaf2c.tar.bz2
thp: introduce sysfs knob to disable huge zero page
By default kernel tries to use huge zero page on read page fault. It's possible to disable huge zero page by writing 0 or enable it back by writing 1: echo 0 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/use_zero_page echo 1 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/use_zero_page Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt7
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
index 60aeedd54615..8785fb87d9c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
@@ -116,6 +116,13 @@ echo always >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
echo madvise >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
echo never >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
+By default kernel tries to use huge zero page on read page fault.
+It's possible to disable huge zero page by writing 0 or enable it
+back by writing 1:
+
+echo 0 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/use_zero_page
+echo 1 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/use_zero_page
+
khugepaged will be automatically started when
transparent_hugepage/enabled is set to "always" or "madvise, and it'll
be automatically shutdown if it's set to "never".