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-rw-r--r--mm/huge_memory.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 2612f60f53ee..4f7e2113646c 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -27,11 +27,12 @@
#include "internal.h"
/*
- * By default transparent hugepage support is enabled for all mappings
- * and khugepaged scans all mappings. Defrag is only invoked by
- * khugepaged hugepage allocations and by page faults inside
- * MADV_HUGEPAGE regions to avoid the risk of slowing down short lived
- * allocations.
+ * By default transparent hugepage support is disabled in order that avoid
+ * to risk increase the memory footprint of applications without a guaranteed
+ * benefit. When transparent hugepage support is enabled, is for all mappings,
+ * and khugepaged scans all mappings.
+ * Defrag is invoked by khugepaged hugepage allocations and by page faults
+ * for all hugepage allocations.
*/
unsigned long transparent_hugepage_flags __read_mostly =
#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_ALWAYS