[PATCH v4 1/2] mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: introduce ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP

Muchun Song songmuchun at bytedance.com
Thu Mar 31 01:53:48 PDT 2022


On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 4:51 PM David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 31.03.22 10:48, Muchun Song wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 4:42 PM David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 31.03.22 08:56, Muchun Song wrote:
> >>> The feature of minimizing overhead of struct page associated with each
> >>> HugeTLB page is implemented on x86_64, however, the infrastructure of
> >>> this feature is already there, we could easily enable it for other
> >>> architectures.  Introduce ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP for other
> >>> architectures to be easily enabled.  Just select this config if they
> >>> want to enable this feature.
> >>>
> >>> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun at bytedance.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>  arch/x86/Kconfig |  1 +
> >>>  fs/Kconfig       | 10 +++++++++-
> >>>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> >>> index 9f5bd41bf660..e69d42528542 100644
> >>> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> >>> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> >>> @@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ config X86
> >>>       select ARCH_WANTS_DYNAMIC_TASK_STRUCT
> >>>       select ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
> >>>       select ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE
> >>> +     select ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP      if X86_64
> >>>       select ARCH_WANT_LD_ORPHAN_WARN
> >>>       select ARCH_WANTS_THP_SWAP              if X86_64
> >>>       select ARCH_HAS_PARANOID_L1D_FLUSH
> >>> diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
> >>> index 6c7dc1387beb..f6db2af33738 100644
> >>> --- a/fs/Kconfig
> >>> +++ b/fs/Kconfig
> >>> @@ -245,9 +245,17 @@ config HUGETLBFS
> >>>  config HUGETLB_PAGE
> >>>       def_bool HUGETLBFS
> >>>
> >>> +#
> >>> +# Select this config option from the architecture Kconfig, if it is preferred
> >>> +# to enable the feature of minimizing overhead of struct page associated with
> >>> +# each HugeTLB page.
> >>> +#
> >>> +config ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
> >>> +     bool
> >>> +
> >>>  config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
> >>>       def_bool HUGETLB_PAGE
> >>> -     depends on X86_64
> >>> +     depends on ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
> >>>       depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
> >>>
> >>>  config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON
> >>
> >>
> >> I think something like "HUGETLB_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP" might be more
> >> expressive, but that would imply renaming the existing config knob.
> >>
> >
> > How about doing a full code cleanup in a separate series in the future?
> >
>
> Yeah.
>

OK. Have Added it into my To-do list.

Thanks.



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