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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 25 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/hugetlb.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/hugetlb.c | 4 |
4 files changed, 1 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 5025ff9307e6..ff234d229cbb 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm: - dirty_writeback_centisecs - drop_caches - extfrag_threshold -- hugepages_treat_as_movable - hugetlb_shm_group - laptop_mode - legacy_va_layout @@ -261,30 +260,6 @@ any throttling. ============================================================== -hugepages_treat_as_movable - -This parameter controls whether we can allocate hugepages from ZONE_MOVABLE -or not. If set to non-zero, hugepages can be allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE. -ZONE_MOVABLE is created when kernel boot parameter kernelcore= is specified, -so this parameter has no effect if used without kernelcore=. - -Hugepage migration is now available in some situations which depend on the -architecture and/or the hugepage size. If a hugepage supports migration, -allocation from ZONE_MOVABLE is always enabled for the hugepage regardless -of the value of this parameter. -IOW, this parameter affects only non-migratable hugepages. - -Assuming that hugepages are not migratable in your system, one usecase of -this parameter is that users can make hugepage pool more extensible by -enabling the allocation from ZONE_MOVABLE. This is because on ZONE_MOVABLE -page reclaim/migration/compaction work more and you can get contiguous -memory more likely. Note that using ZONE_MOVABLE for non-migratable -hugepages can do harm to other features like memory hotremove (because -memory hotremove expects that memory blocks on ZONE_MOVABLE are always -removable,) so it's a trade-off responsible for the users. - -============================================================== - hugetlb_shm_group hugetlb_shm_group contains group id that is allowed to create SysV diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h index 82a25880714a..6fcf140188d0 100644 --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h @@ -129,7 +129,6 @@ u32 hugetlb_fault_mutex_hash(struct hstate *h, struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *huge_pmd_share(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pud_t *pud); -extern int hugepages_treat_as_movable; extern int sysctl_hugetlb_shm_group; extern struct list_head huge_boot_pages; 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, diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c index 1e6a5ad0d420..4137fb67cd79 100644 --- a/mm/hugetlb.c +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c @@ -36,8 +36,6 @@ #include <linux/userfaultfd_k.h> #include "internal.h" -int hugepages_treat_as_movable; - int hugetlb_max_hstate __read_mostly; unsigned int default_hstate_idx; struct hstate hstates[HUGE_MAX_HSTATE]; @@ -926,7 +924,7 @@ retry_cpuset: /* Movability of hugepages depends on migration support. */ static inline gfp_t htlb_alloc_mask(struct hstate *h) { - if (hugepages_treat_as_movable || hugepage_migration_supported(h)) + if (hugepage_migration_supported(h)) return GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE; else return GFP_HIGHUSER; |