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| author | Song Liu <song@kernel.org> | 2022-04-15 09:44:10 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-04-19 12:08:57 -0700 |
| commit | 559089e0a93d44280ec3ab478830af319c56dbe3 (patch) | |
| tree | b4480a72841a160200f7ba9d3097d9db1d92cf9c /arch/Kconfig | |
| parent | b7f73403a3e922c20bb278ba3cfcc3c61930d82a (diff) | |
| download | linux-559089e0a93d44280ec3ab478830af319c56dbe3.tar.gz | |
vmalloc: replace VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP with VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP
Huge page backed vmalloc memory could benefit performance in many cases.
However, some users of vmalloc may not be ready to handle huge pages for
various reasons: hardware constraints, potential pages split, etc.
VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP was introduced to allow vmalloc users to opt-out huge
pages. However, it is not easy to track down all the users that require
the opt-out, as the allocation are passed different stacks and may cause
issues in different layers.
To address this issue, replace VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP with an opt-in flag,
VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP, so that users that benefit from huge pages could ask
specificially.
Also, remove vmalloc_no_huge() and add opt-in helper vmalloc_huge().
Fixes: fac54e2bfb5b ("x86/Kconfig: Select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC with HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/14444103-d51b-0fb3-ee63-c3f182f0b546@molgen.mpg.de/"
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/Kconfig | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 29b0167c088b8..31c4fdc4a4baa 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -854,10 +854,8 @@ config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP # # Archs that select this would be capable of PMD-sized vmaps (i.e., -# arch_vmap_pmd_supported() returns true), and they must make no assumptions -# that vmalloc memory is mapped with PAGE_SIZE ptes. The VM_NO_HUGE_VMAP flag -# can be used to prohibit arch-specific allocations from using hugepages to -# help with this (e.g., modules may require it). +# arch_vmap_pmd_supported() returns true). The VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP flag +# must be used to enable allocations to use hugepages. # config HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC depends on HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP |