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[ Upstream commit 00f58104202c472e487f0866fbd38832523fd4f9 ] Since the introduction of mTHP, the docuementation has stated that khugepaged would be enabled when any mTHP size is enabled, and disabled when all mTHP sizes are disabled. There are 2 problems with this; 1. this is not what was implemented by the code and 2. this is not the desirable behavior. Desirable behavior is for khugepaged to be enabled when any PMD-sized THP is enabled, anon or file. (Note that file THP is still controlled by the top-level control so we must always consider that, as well as the PMD-size mTHP control for anon). khugepaged only supports collapsing to PMD-sized THP so there is no value in enabling it when PMD-sized THP is disabled. So let's change the code and documentation to reflect this policy. Further, per-size enabled control modification events were not previously forwarded to khugepaged to give it an opportunity to start or stop. Consequently the following was resulting in khugepaged eroneously not being activated: echo never > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled echo always > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-2048kB/enabled [ryan.roberts@arm.com: v3] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240705102849.2479686-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240705102849.2479686-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240704091051.2411934-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Fixes: 3485b88390b0 ("mm: thp: introduce multi-size THP sysfs interface") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/7a0bbe69-1e3d-4263-b206-da007791a5c4@redhat.com/ Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@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 reStructuredText 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.