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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-02-22 19:29:24 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-02-22 19:29:24 -0800
commitbc49a7831b1137ce1c2dda1c57e3631655f5d2ae (patch)
tree469380ac3a17e1d927ccf06abc99b6f509deb24a /Documentation/vm
parentbe5165a51d2500ae1afa1236a8b09858831fdf7e (diff)
parentf201ebd87652cf1519792f8662bb3f862c76aa33 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: "142 patches: - DAX updates - various misc bits - OCFS2 updates - most of MM" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (142 commits) mm/z3fold.c: limit first_num to the actual range of possible buddy indexes mm: fix <linux/pagemap.h> stray kernel-doc notation zram: remove obsolete sysfs attrs mm/memblock.c: remove unnecessary log and clean up oom-reaper: use madvise_dontneed() logic to decide if unmap the VMA mm: drop unused argument of zap_page_range() mm: drop zap_details::check_swap_entries mm: drop zap_details::ignore_dirty mm, page_alloc: warn_alloc nodemask is NULL when cpusets are disabled mm: help __GFP_NOFAIL allocations which do not trigger OOM killer mm, oom: do not enforce OOM killer for __GFP_NOFAIL automatically mm: consolidate GFP_NOFAIL checks in the allocator slowpath lib/show_mem.c: teach show_mem to work with the given nodemask arch, mm: remove arch specific show_mem mm, page_alloc: warn_alloc print nodemask mm, page_alloc: do not report all nodes in show_mem Revert "mm: bail out in shrink_inactive_list()" mm, vmscan: consider eligible zones in get_scan_count mm, vmscan: cleanup lru size claculations mm, vmscan: do not count freed pages as PGDEACTIVATE ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
index f2e739545e74..cd28d5ee5273 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ MADV_HUGEPAGE region.
echo always >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
echo defer >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
+echo defer+madvise >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
echo madvise >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
echo never >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
@@ -120,10 +121,15 @@ that benefit heavily from THP use and are willing to delay the VM start
to utilise them.
"defer" means that an application will wake kswapd in the background
-to reclaim pages and wake kcompact to compact memory so that THP is
+to reclaim pages and wake kcompactd to compact memory so that THP is
available in the near future. It's the responsibility of khugepaged
to then install the THP pages later.
+"defer+madvise" will enter direct reclaim and compaction like "always", but
+only for regions that have used madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE); all other regions
+will wake kswapd in the background to reclaim pages and wake kcompactd to
+compact memory so that THP is available in the near future.
+
"madvise" will enter direct reclaim like "always" but only for regions
that are have used madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE). This is the default behaviour.