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-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt19
3 files changed, 22 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
index cefd3d8bbd1..12e01d432bf 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ and name space for cpusets, with a minimum of additional kernel code.
The cpus and mems files in the root (top_cpuset) cpuset are
read-only. The cpus file automatically tracks the value of
cpu_online_mask using a CPU hotplug notifier, and the mems file
-automatically tracks the value of node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY]--i.e.,
+automatically tracks the value of node_states[N_MEMORY]--i.e.,
nodes with memory--using the cpuset_track_online_nodes() hook.
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
index c6f993d491b..8e5eacbdcfa 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
@@ -390,6 +390,7 @@ struct memory_notify {
unsigned long start_pfn;
unsigned long nr_pages;
int status_change_nid_normal;
+ int status_change_nid_high;
int status_change_nid;
}
@@ -397,7 +398,9 @@ start_pfn is start_pfn of online/offline memory.
nr_pages is # of pages of online/offline memory.
status_change_nid_normal is set node id when N_NORMAL_MEMORY of nodemask
is (will be) set/clear, if this is -1, then nodemask status is not changed.
-status_change_nid is set node id when N_HIGH_MEMORY of nodemask is (will be)
+status_change_nid_high is set node id when N_HIGH_MEMORY of nodemask
+is (will be) set/clear, if this is -1, then nodemask status is not changed.
+status_change_nid is set node id when N_MEMORY of nodemask is (will be)
set/clear. It means a new(memoryless) node gets new memory by online and a
node loses all memory. If this is -1, then nodemask status is not changed.
If status_changed_nid* >= 0, callback should create/discard structures for the
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
index f734bb2a78d..8785fb87d9c 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
@@ -116,6 +116,13 @@ echo always >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
echo madvise >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
echo never >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
+By default kernel tries to use huge zero page on read page fault.
+It's possible to disable huge zero page by writing 0 or enable it
+back by writing 1:
+
+echo 0 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/use_zero_page
+echo 1 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/use_zero_page
+
khugepaged will be automatically started when
transparent_hugepage/enabled is set to "always" or "madvise, and it'll
be automatically shutdown if it's set to "never".
@@ -197,6 +204,14 @@ thp_split is incremented every time a huge page is split into base
pages. This can happen for a variety of reasons but a common
reason is that a huge page is old and is being reclaimed.
+thp_zero_page_alloc is incremented every time a huge zero page is
+ successfully allocated. It includes allocations which where
+ dropped due race with other allocation. Note, it doesn't count
+ every map of the huge zero page, only its allocation.
+
+thp_zero_page_alloc_failed is incremented if kernel fails to allocate
+ huge zero page and falls back to using small pages.
+
As the system ages, allocating huge pages may be expensive as the
system uses memory compaction to copy data around memory to free a
huge page for use. There are some counters in /proc/vmstat to help
@@ -276,7 +291,7 @@ unaffected. libhugetlbfs will also work fine as usual.
== Graceful fallback ==
Code walking pagetables but unware about huge pmds can simply call
-split_huge_page_pmd(mm, pmd) where the pmd is the one returned by
+split_huge_page_pmd(vma, addr, pmd) where the pmd is the one returned by
pmd_offset. It's trivial to make the code transparent hugepage aware
by just grepping for "pmd_offset" and adding split_huge_page_pmd where
missing after pmd_offset returns the pmd. Thanks to the graceful
@@ -299,7 +314,7 @@ diff --git a/mm/mremap.c b/mm/mremap.c
return NULL;
pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
-+ split_huge_page_pmd(mm, pmd);
++ split_huge_page_pmd(vma, addr, pmd);
if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd))
return NULL;