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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst | 3 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 566c4b9af3cd..b787a9953f2e 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1567,6 +1567,23 @@ Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. Format: size[KMG] + hugetlb_free_vmemmap= + [KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP + enabled. + Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more + memory (6 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page). + This feauture is not free though. Large page + tables are not used to back vmemmap pages which + can lead to a performance degradation for some + workloads. Also there will be memory allocation + required when hugetlb pages are freed from the + pool which can lead to corner cases under heavy + memory pressure. + Format: { on | off (default) } + + on: enable the feature + off: disable the feature + hung_task_panic= [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. Format: 0 | 1 diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst index 6988895d09a8..8abaeb144e44 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst @@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ default_hugepagesz will all result in 256 2M huge pages being allocated. Valid default huge page size is architecture dependent. +hugetlb_free_vmemmap + When CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP is set, this enables freeing + unused vmemmap pages associated with each HugeTLB page. 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. |