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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-07-02 22:08:10 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-07-02 22:08:10 +0300 |
commit | 71bd9341011f626d692aabe024f099820f02c497 (patch) | |
tree | a1c27fd8f17daff36e380800c5b69769d0d9cc99 /Documentation/admin-guide | |
parent | 3dbdb38e286903ec220aaf1fb29a8d94297da246 (diff) | |
parent | b869d5be0acf0e125e69adcffdca04000dc5b17c (diff) | |
download | linux-71bd9341011f626d692aabe024f099820f02c497.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
"190 patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (hugetlb, userfaultfd,
vmscan, kconfig, proc, z3fold, zbud, ras, mempolicy, memblock,
migration, thp, nommu, kconfig, madvise, memory-hotplug, zswap,
zsmalloc, zram, cleanups, kfence, and hmm), procfs, sysctl, misc,
core-kernel, lib, lz4, checkpatch, init, kprobes, nilfs2, hfs,
signals, exec, kcov, selftests, compress/decompress, and ipc"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (190 commits)
ipc/util.c: use binary search for max_idx
ipc/sem.c: use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for use_global_lock
ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel
ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation
lib/decompressors: remove set but not used variabled 'level'
selftests/vm/pkeys: exercise x86 XSAVE init state
selftests/vm/pkeys: refill shadow register after implicit kernel write
selftests/vm/pkeys: handle negative sys_pkey_alloc() return code
selftests/vm/pkeys: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really, really random
kcov: add __no_sanitize_coverage to fix noinstr for all architectures
exec: remove checks in __register_bimfmt()
x86: signal: don't do sas_ss_reset() until we are certain that sigframe won't be abandoned
hfsplus: report create_date to kstat.btime
hfsplus: remove unnecessary oom message
nilfs2: remove redundant continue statement in a while-loop
kprobes: remove duplicated strong free_insn_page in x86 and s390
init: print out unknown kernel parameters
checkpatch: do not complain about positive return values starting with EPOLL
checkpatch: improve the indented label test
checkpatch: scripts/spdxcheck.py now requires python3
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 21 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst | 11 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst | 13 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst | 3 |
5 files changed, 49 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 0315407f5f57..13f13fdd4731 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1594,6 +1594,23 @@ 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). + Format: { on | off (default) } + + on: enable the feature + off: disable the feature + + Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y, + the default is on. + + This is not compatible with memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. + If both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes + precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. + hung_task_panic= [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. Format: 0 | 1 @@ -2860,6 +2877,10 @@ Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where the feature is not effective. + This is not compatible with hugetlb_free_vmemmap. If + both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes + precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. + memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest Format: <integer> default : 0 <disable> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst index f7b1c7462991..8abaeb144e44 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst @@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ HugePages_Surp the pool above the value in ``/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages``. The maximum number of surplus huge pages is controlled by ``/proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages``. + Note: When the feature of freeing unused vmemmap pages associated + with each hugetlb page is enabled, the number of surplus huge pages + may be temporarily larger than the maximum number of surplus huge + pages when the system is under memory pressure. Hugepagesize is the default hugepage size (in Kb). Hugetlb @@ -80,6 +84,10 @@ returned to the huge page pool when freed by a task. A user with root privileges can dynamically allocate more or free some persistent huge pages by increasing or decreasing the value of ``nr_hugepages``. +Note: When the feature of freeing unused vmemmap pages associated with each +hugetlb page is enabled, we can fail to free the huge pages triggered by +the user when ths system is under memory pressure. Please try again later. + Pages that are used as huge pages are reserved inside the kernel and cannot be used for other purposes. Huge pages cannot be swapped out under memory pressure. @@ -145,6 +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. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst index 05d51d2d8beb..c6bae2d77160 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/memory-hotplug.rst @@ -357,6 +357,19 @@ creates ZONE_MOVABLE as following. Unfortunately, there is no information to show which memory block belongs to ZONE_MOVABLE. This is TBD. + Memory offlining can fail when dissolving a free huge page on ZONE_MOVABLE + and the feature of freeing unused vmemmap pages associated with each hugetlb + page is enabled. + + This can happen when we have plenty of ZONE_MOVABLE memory, but not enough + kernel memory to allocate vmemmmap pages. We may even be able to migrate + huge page contents, but will not be able to dissolve the source huge page. + This will prevent an offline operation and is unfortunate as memory offlining + is expected to succeed on movable zones. Users that depend on memory hotplug + to succeed for movable zones should carefully consider whether the memory + savings gained from this feature are worth the risk of possibly not being + able to offline memory in certain situations. + .. note:: Techniques that rely on long-term pinnings of memory (especially, RDMA and vfio) are fundamentally problematic with ZONE_MOVABLE and, therefore, memory diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst index 340a5aee9b80..fb578fbbb76c 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst @@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ There are four components to pagemap: * Bit 55 pte is soft-dirty (see :ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst <soft_dirty>`) * Bit 56 page exclusively mapped (since 4.2) + * Bit 57 pte is uffd-wp write-protected (since 5.13) (see + :ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst <userfaultfd>`) * Bits 57-60 zero * Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon (since 3.5) * Bit 62 page swapped diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst index 3aa38e8b8361..6528036093e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst @@ -77,7 +77,8 @@ events, except page fault notifications, may be generated: - ``UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_HUGETLBFS`` indicates that the kernel supports ``UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_MINOR`` registration for hugetlbfs virtual memory - areas. + areas. ``UFFD_FEATURE_MINOR_SHMEM`` is the analogous feature indicating + support for shmem virtual memory areas. The userland application should set the feature flags it intends to use when invoking the ``UFFDIO_API`` ioctl, to request that those features be |