[RFC PATCH v3 0/2] arm64/hugetlb: enable gigantic page
From: Xie Yisheng
Date: Mon Aug 22 2016 - 09:23:37 EST
Arm64 supports different size of gigantic page which can be seen from:
commit 084bd29810a5 ("ARM64: mm: HugeTLB support.")
commit 66b3923a1a0f ("arm64: hugetlb: add support for PTE contiguous bit")
So I tried to use this function by adding hugepagesz=1G in kernel
parameters, with CONFIG_CMA=y. However, when I
echo xx > \
/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages
it failed with the following info:
-bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
This is a v3 patchset which make gigantic page can be
allocated and freed at runtime for arch arm64,
with CONFIG_CMA=y or other related configs is enabled.
You can see the former discussions at:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/18/310
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/21/410
Xie Yisheng (2):
mm/hugetlb: Introduce ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE
arm64 Kconfig: Select gigantic page
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
fs/Kconfig | 3 ++++
mm/hugetlb.c | 2 +-
5 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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