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Patch series "mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail struct pages if freed by HVO", v5. This series moves the boot time initialization of tail struct pages of a gigantic page to later on in the boot. Only the HUGETLB_VMEMMAP_RESERVE_SIZE / sizeof(struct page) - 1 tail struct pages are initialized at the start. If HVO is successful, then no more tail struct pages need to be initialized. For a 1G hugepage, this series avoid initialization of 262144 - 63 = 262081 struct pages per hugepage. When tested on a 512G system (allocating 500 1G hugepages), the kexec-boot times with DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT enabled are: - with patches, HVO enabled: 1.32 seconds - with patches, HVO disabled: 2.15 seconds - without patches, HVO enabled: 3.90 seconds - without patches, HVO disabled: 3.58 seconds This represents an approximately 70% reduction in boot time and will significantly reduce server downtime when using a large number of gigantic pages. This patch (of 4): If tail page prep and initialization is skipped, then the "start" page will not contain the correct nid. Use the nid from first vmemap page. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230913105401.519709-1-usama.arif@bytedance.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230913105401.519709-2-usama.arif@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Fam Zheng <fam.zheng@bytedance.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text 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.