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Commit e9fdff87 authored by Muchun Song's avatar Muchun Song Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: hugetlb: add a kernel parameter hugetlb_free_vmemmap



Add a kernel parameter hugetlb_free_vmemmap to enable the feature of
freeing unused vmemmap pages associated with each hugetlb page on boot.

We disable 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.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210510030027.56044-8-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarMuchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarOscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBarry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMiaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Tested-by: default avatarChen Huang <chenhuang5@huawei.com>
Tested-by: default avatarBodeddula Balasubramaniam <bodeddub@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: HORIGUCHI NAOYA <naoya.horiguchi@nec.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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