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Add an option to force hugetlb gigantic pages to be allocated using CMA only (if hugetlb_cma is enabled). This avoids a fallback to allocation from the rest of system memory if the CMA allocation fails. This makes the size of hugetlb_cma a hard upper boundary for gigantic hugetlb page allocations. This is useful because, with a large CMA area, the kernel's unmovable allocations will have less room to work with and it is undesirable for new hugetlb gigantic page allocations to be done from that remaining area. It will eat in to the space available for unmovable allocations, leading to unwanted system behavior (OOMs because the kernel fails to do unmovable allocations). So, with this enabled, an administrator can force a hard upper bound for runtime gigantic page allocations, and have more predictable system behavior. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250228182928.2645936-26-fvdl@google.com Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.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.