linux/Documentation/admin-guide/mm
Mike Kravetz 282f421438 hugetlbfs: clean up command line processing
With all hugetlb page processing done in a single file clean up code.

- Make code match desired semantics
  - Update documentation with semantics
- Make all warnings and errors messages start with 'HugeTLB:'.
- Consistently name command line parsing routines.
- Warn if !hugepages_supported() and command line parameters have
  been specified.
- Add comments to code
  - Describe some of the subtle interactions
  - Describe semantics of command line arguments

This patch also fixes issues with implicitly setting the number of
gigantic huge pages to preallocate.  Previously on X86 command line,

        hugepages=2 default_hugepagesz=1G

would result in zero 1G pages being preallocated and,

        # grep HugePages_Total /proc/meminfo
        HugePages_Total:       0
        # sysctl -a | grep nr_hugepages
        vm.nr_hugepages = 2
        vm.nr_hugepages_mempolicy = 2
        # cat /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
        2

After this patch 2 gigantic pages will be preallocated and all the proc,
sysfs, sysctl and meminfo files will accurately reflect this.

To address the issue with gigantic pages, a small change in behavior was
made to command line processing.  Previously the command line,

        hugepages=128 default_hugepagesz=2M hugepagesz=2M hugepages=256

would result in the allocation of 256 2M huge pages.  The value 128 would
be ignored without any warning.  After this patch, 128 2M pages will be
allocated and a warning message will be displayed indicating the value of
256 is ignored.  This change in behavior is required because allocation of
implicitly specified gigantic pages must be done when the
default_hugepagesz= is encountered for gigantic pages.  Previously the
code waited until later in the boot process (hugetlb_init), to allocate
pages of default size.  However the bootmem allocator required for
gigantic allocations is not available at this time.

Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Sandipan Das <sandipan@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>	[s390]
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Longpeng <longpeng2@huawei.com>
Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Cc: Nitesh Narayan Lal <nitesh@redhat.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200417185049.275845-5-mike.kravetz@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-03 20:09:46 -07:00
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cma_debugfs.rst docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
concepts.rst docs/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst: grammar and style fixups 2018-11-20 09:26:10 -07:00
hugetlbpage.rst hugetlbfs: clean up command line processing 2020-06-03 20:09:46 -07:00
idle_page_tracking.rst tools/vm/page-types.c: add support for idle page tracking 2018-08-17 16:20:28 -07:00
index.rst docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
ksm.rst docs: admin-guide: move sysctl directory to it 2019-07-15 11:03:01 -03:00
memory-hotplug.rst memory-hotplug.rst: add some details about locking internals 2018-10-31 08:54:17 -07:00
numa_memory_policy.rst docs: cgroup-v1: add it to the admin-guide book 2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
numaperf.rst docs: mm: numaperf.rst: get rid of a build warning 2019-06-08 13:42:10 -06:00
pagemap.rst mm: convert PG_balloon to PG_offline 2019-03-05 21:07:14 -08:00
soft-dirty.rst
transhuge.rst khugepaged: introduce 'max_ptes_shared' tunable 2020-06-03 20:09:46 -07:00
userfaultfd.rst docs: mm: userfaultfd.rst: use a cross-reference for a section 2020-04-20 15:45:23 -06:00