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[ Upstream commit bae84953815793f68ddd8edeadd3f4e32676a2c8 ] Differentiate between hardware not supporting hugepages and user disabling THP via 'echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled' For the devdax namespace, the kernel handles the above via the supported_alignment attribute and failing to initialize the namespace if the namespace align value is not supported on the platform. For the fsdax namespace, the kernel will continue to initialize the namespace. This can result in the kernel creating a huge pte entry even though the hardware don't support the same. We do want hugepage support with pmem even if the end-user disabled THP via sysfs file (/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled). Hence differentiate between hardware/firmware lacking support vs user-controlled disable of THP and prevent a huge fault if the hardware lacks hugepage support. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210205023956.417587-1-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.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 Restructured Text 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.