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To support the use of mTHP with anonymous shmem, add a new sysfs interface 'shmem_enabled' in the '/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-kB/' directory for each mTHP to control whether shmem is enabled for that mTHP, with a value similar to the top level 'shmem_enabled', which can be set to: "always", "inherit (to inherit the top level setting)", "within_size", "advise", "never". An 'inherit' option is added to ensure compatibility with these global settings, and the options 'force' and 'deny' are dropped, which are rather testing artifacts from the old ages. By default, PMD-sized hugepages have enabled="inherit" and all other hugepage sizes have enabled="never" for '/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-xxkB/shmem_enabled'. In addition, if top level value is 'force', then only PMD-sized hugepages have enabled="inherit", otherwise configuration will be failed and vice versa. That means now we will avoid using non-PMD sized THP to override the global huge allocation. [baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com: fix transhuge.rst indentation] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b189d815-998b-4dfd-ba89-218ff51313f8@linux.alibaba.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: reflow transhuge.rst addition to 80 cols] [baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com: move huge_shmem_orders_lock under CONFIG_SYSFS] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/eb34da66-7f12-44f3-a39e-2bcc90c33354@linux.alibaba.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: huge_memory.c needs mm_types.h] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ffddfa8b3cb4266ff963099ab78cfd7184c57ac7.1718090413.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.