Re: [PATCH] thp: 'transparent_hugepage=' can also be specified on cmdline
From: Andrea Arcangeli <hidden>
Date: 2012-02-22 17:03:48
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 05:13:04PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
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Behavior of THP can either be toggled through sysfs in runtime or using a kernel cmdline parameter 'transparent_hugepage='. Document the latter. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <redacted> --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +++++++ Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 033d4e6..a4de9b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt@@ -2629,6 +2629,13 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. to facilitate early boot debugging. See also Documentation/trace/events.txt + transparent_hugepage= + [KNL] + Format: [always|madvise|never] + Can be used to control the default behavior of the system + with respect to transparent hugepages. + See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details. + tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC. Format: <string> [x86] reliable: mark tsc clocksource as reliable, this
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt index 29bdf62..4a3816d 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt@@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ echo always >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled echo madvise >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled echo never >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled +The always/madvise/never value can also be specified on the kernel boot +commandline using 'transparent_hugepage=' parameter. + It's also possible to limit defrag efforts in the VM to generate
This is a dup. == Boot parameter == You can change the sysfs boot time defaults of Transparent Hugepage Support by passing the parameter "transparent_hugepage=always" or "transparent_hugepage=madvise" or "transparent_hugepage=never" (without "") to the kernel command line.
hugepages in case they're not immediately free to madvise regions or to never try to defrag memory and simply fallback to regular pages -- 1.7.3.1
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