Re: [PATCH v18 6/9] mm: hugetlb: add a kernel parameter hugetlb_free_vmemmap
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Date: 2021-03-10 15:38:07
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On Mon 08-03-21 18:28:04, Muchun Song wrote:
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Add a kernel parameter hugetlb_free_vmemmap to enable the feature of freeing unused vmemmap pages associated with each hugetlb page on boot. We disables PMD mapping of vmemmap pages for x86-64 arch when this feature is enabled. Because vmemmap_remap_free() depends on vmemmap being base page mapped. Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <redacted> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <redacted> Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Tested-by: Chen Huang <redacted> Tested-by: Bodeddula Balasubramaniam <redacted> --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++ Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst | 3 +++ arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 8 ++++++-- include/linux/hugetlb.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ mm/hugetlb_vmemmap.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 04545725f187..de91d54573c4 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt@@ -1557,6 +1557,20 @@ Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. Format: size[KMG] + hugetlb_free_vmemmap= + [KNL] When CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP is set, + this controls freeing unused vmemmap pages associated + with each HugeTLB page. When this option is enabled, + we disable PMD/huge page mapping of vmemmap pages which + increase page table pages. So if a user/sysadmin only + uses a small number of HugeTLB pages (as a percentage + of system memory), they could end up using more memory + with hugetlb_free_vmemmap on as opposed to off. + Format: { on | off (default) }
Please note this is an admin guide and for those this seems overly low level. I would use something like the following [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 use 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.
+ + on: enable the feature + off: disable the feature + hung_task_panic= [KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics. Format: 0 | 1
-- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs