[PATCH 3/3] x86: Support huge vmalloc mappings
From: Kefeng Wang <hidden>
Date: 2021-12-26 08:29:58
Also in:
linux-arm-kernel, linux-mm, linuxppc-dev, lkml
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest, x86 architecture (32-bit and 64-bit) · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds, Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen
This patch select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC to let X86_64 and X86_PAE support huge vmalloc mappings, it is disabled by default, use hugevmalloc=on to enable it. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <redacted> --- Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++-- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 235a23b08809..5c8780e66be2 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt@@ -1630,7 +1630,7 @@ precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. - hugevmalloc= [KNL,PPC,ARM64] Reguires CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC + hugevmalloc= [KNL,PPC,ARM64,X86] Reguires CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC Format: { on | off } Default set by CONFIG_HUGE_VMALLOC_DEFAULT_ENABLED.
@@ -3415,7 +3415,7 @@ nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings. - nohugevmalloc [KNL,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. + nohugevmalloc [KNL,PPC,ARM64,X86] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings. nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT). Equivalent to smt=1.
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 5c2ccb85f2ef..31e465fecd01 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ config X86 select HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI if ACPI select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE if SLUB select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL + select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC if HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP if X86_64 || X86_PAE select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
--
2.26.2