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[RFC PATCH 03/24] mm/hugetlb: Introduce a new config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP

From: Muchun Song <hidden>
Date: 2020-09-15 13:01:59
Also in: linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), the rest · Maintainers: Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Linus Torvalds

The purpose of introducing HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP is to configure
whether to enable the feature of freeing unused vmemmap associated
with HugeTLB pages.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <redacted>
---
 fs/Kconfig | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index 976e8b9033c4..61e9c08096ca 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -245,6 +245,21 @@ config HUGETLBFS
 config HUGETLB_PAGE
 	def_bool HUGETLBFS
 
+config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
+	bool "Free unused vmemmap associated with HugeTLB pages"
+	default n
+	depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
+	depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
+	depends on HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
+	help
+	  There are many struct page structure associated with each HugeTLB
+	  page. But we only use a few struct page structure. In this case,
+	  it waste some memory. It is better to free the unused struct page
+	  structures to buddy system which can save some memory. For
+	  architectures that support it, say Y here.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 config MEMFD_CREATE
 	def_bool TMPFS || HUGETLBFS
 
-- 
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