Hi:
On 2021/1/17 23:10, Muchun Song wrote:
> The HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP option is used to enable the freeing
> of unnecessary vmemmap associated with HugeTLB pages. The config
> option is introduced early so that supporting code can be written
> to depend on the option. The initial version of the code only
> provides support for x86-64.
> 
> Like other code which frees vmemmap, this config option depends on
> HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE. The routine register_page_bootmem_info() is
> used to register bootmem info. Therefore, make sure
> register_page_bootmem_info is enabled if HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
> is defined.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuc...@bytedance.com>
> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalva...@suse.de>
> Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.krav...@oracle.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/init_64.c |  2 +-
>  fs/Kconfig            | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> index 0a45f062826e..0435bee2e172 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> @@ -1225,7 +1225,7 @@ static struct kcore_list kcore_vsyscall;
>  
>  static void __init register_page_bootmem_info(void)
>  {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> +#if defined(CONFIG_NUMA) || defined(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP)
>       int i;
>  
>       for_each_online_node(i)
> diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
> index 976e8b9033c4..e7c4c2a79311 100644
> --- a/fs/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/Kconfig
> @@ -245,6 +245,24 @@ config HUGETLBFS
>  config HUGETLB_PAGE
>       def_bool HUGETLBFS
>  
> +config HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
> +     def_bool HUGETLB_PAGE
> +     depends on X86_64
> +     depends on SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
> +     depends on HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE
> +     help
> +       The option HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP allows for the freeing of
> +       some vmemmap pages associated with pre-allocated HugeTLB pages.
> +       For example, on X86_64 6 vmemmap pages of size 4KB each can be
> +       saved for each 2MB HugeTLB page.  4094 vmemmap pages of size 4KB
> +       each can be saved for each 1GB HugeTLB page.
> +
> +       When a HugeTLB page is allocated or freed, the vmemmap array
> +       representing the range associated with the page will need to be
> +       remapped.  When a page is allocated, vmemmap pages are freed
> +       after remapping.  When a page is freed, previously discarded
> +       vmemmap pages must be allocated before remapping.
> +
>  config MEMFD_CREATE
>       def_bool TMPFS || HUGETLBFS
>  
> 

LGTM. Thanks.

Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmia...@huawei.com>

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