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authorMike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>2020-06-03 16:00:46 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-03 20:09:46 -0700
commit282f4214384ee2e2ca39b2532a5296fddf762518 (patch)
tree69f8ee8b50a345e958ed774e569e74fb8f2acff8 /Documentation
parent38237830882ba8d425a397066982d5e32b4ced21 (diff)
downloadlinux-282f4214384ee2e2ca39b2532a5296fddf762518.tar.bz2
hugetlbfs: clean up command line processing
With all hugetlb page processing done in a single file clean up code. - Make code match desired semantics - Update documentation with semantics - Make all warnings and errors messages start with 'HugeTLB:'. - Consistently name command line parsing routines. - Warn if !hugepages_supported() and command line parameters have been specified. - Add comments to code - Describe some of the subtle interactions - Describe semantics of command line arguments This patch also fixes issues with implicitly setting the number of gigantic huge pages to preallocate. Previously on X86 command line, hugepages=2 default_hugepagesz=1G would result in zero 1G pages being preallocated and, # grep HugePages_Total /proc/meminfo HugePages_Total: 0 # sysctl -a | grep nr_hugepages vm.nr_hugepages = 2 vm.nr_hugepages_mempolicy = 2 # cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages 2 After this patch 2 gigantic pages will be preallocated and all the proc, sysfs, sysctl and meminfo files will accurately reflect this. To address the issue with gigantic pages, a small change in behavior was made to command line processing. Previously the command line, hugepages=128 default_hugepagesz=2M hugepagesz=2M hugepages=256 would result in the allocation of 256 2M huge pages. The value 128 would be ignored without any warning. After this patch, 128 2M pages will be allocated and a warning message will be displayed indicating the value of 256 is ignored. This change in behavior is required because allocation of implicitly specified gigantic pages must be done when the default_hugepagesz= is encountered for gigantic pages. Previously the code waited until later in the boot process (hugetlb_init), to allocate pages of default size. However the bootmem allocator required for gigantic allocations is not available at this time. Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> [s390] Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Longpeng <longpeng2@huawei.com> Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com> Cc: Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200417185049.275845-5-mike.kravetz@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt40
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst35
2 files changed, 62 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 4379c6ac3265..f4d123b57c5b 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -834,12 +834,15 @@
See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.
default_hugepagesz=
- [same as hugepagesz=] The size of the default
- HugeTLB page size. This is the size represented by
- the legacy /proc/ hugepages APIs, used for SHM, and
- default size when mounting hugetlbfs filesystems.
- Defaults to the default architecture's huge page size
- if not specified.
+ [HW] The size of the default HugeTLB page. This is
+ the size represented by the legacy /proc/ hugepages
+ APIs. In addition, this is the default hugetlb size
+ used for shmget(), mmap() and mounting hugetlbfs
+ filesystems. If not specified, defaults to the
+ architecture's default huge page size. Huge page
+ sizes are architecture dependent. See also
+ Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
+ Format: size[KMG]
deferred_probe_timeout=
[KNL] Debugging option to set a timeout in seconds for
@@ -1479,13 +1482,24 @@
hugepages using the cma allocator. If enabled, the
boot-time allocation of gigantic hugepages is skipped.
- hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
- hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages.
- On x86-64 and powerpc, this option can be specified
- multiple times interleaved with hugepages= to reserve
- huge pages of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on
- x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
- (when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
+ hugepages= [HW] Number of HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot.
+ If this follows hugepagesz (below), it specifies
+ the number of pages of hugepagesz to be allocated.
+ If this is the first HugeTLB parameter on the command
+ line, it specifies the number of pages to allocate for
+ the default huge page size. See also
+ Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
+ Format: <integer>
+
+ hugepagesz=
+ [HW] The size of the HugeTLB pages. This is used in
+ conjunction with hugepages (above) to allocate huge
+ pages of a specific size at boot. The pair
+ hugepagesz=X hugepages=Y can be specified once for
+ each supported huge page size. Huge page sizes are
+ architecture dependent. See also
+ Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
+ Format: size[KMG]
hung_task_panic=
[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
index 1cc0bc78d10e..5026e58826e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
@@ -100,6 +100,41 @@ with a huge page size selection parameter "hugepagesz=<size>". <size> must
be specified in bytes with optional scale suffix [kKmMgG]. The default huge
page size may be selected with the "default_hugepagesz=<size>" boot parameter.
+Hugetlb boot command line parameter semantics
+hugepagesz - Specify a huge page size. Used in conjunction with hugepages
+ parameter to preallocate a number of huge pages of the specified
+ size. Hence, hugepagesz and hugepages are typically specified in
+ pairs such as:
+ hugepagesz=2M hugepages=512
+ hugepagesz can only be specified once on the command line for a
+ specific huge page size. Valid huge page sizes are architecture
+ dependent.
+hugepages - Specify the number of huge pages to preallocate. This typically
+ follows a valid hugepagesz or default_hugepagesz parameter. However,
+ if hugepages is the first or only hugetlb command line parameter it
+ implicitly specifies the number of huge pages of default size to
+ allocate. If the number of huge pages of default size is implicitly
+ specified, it can not be overwritten by a hugepagesz,hugepages
+ parameter pair for the default size.
+ For example, on an architecture with 2M default huge page size:
+ hugepages=256 hugepagesz=2M hugepages=512
+ will result in 256 2M huge pages being allocated and a warning message
+ indicating that the hugepages=512 parameter is ignored. If a hugepages
+ parameter is preceded by an invalid hugepagesz parameter, it will
+ be ignored.
+default_hugepagesz - Specify the default huge page size. This parameter can
+ only be specified once on the command line. default_hugepagesz can
+ optionally be followed by the hugepages parameter to preallocate a
+ specific number of huge pages of default size. The number of default
+ sized huge pages to preallocate can also be implicitly specified as
+ mentioned in the hugepages section above. Therefore, on an
+ architecture with 2M default huge page size:
+ hugepages=256
+ default_hugepagesz=2M hugepages=256
+ hugepages=256 default_hugepagesz=2M
+ will all result in 256 2M huge pages being allocated. Valid default
+ huge page size is architecture dependent.
+
When multiple huge page sizes are supported, ``/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages``
indicates the current number of pre-allocated huge pages of the default size.
Thus, one can use the following command to dynamically allocate/deallocate