Re: [PATCH v4 04/11] mm: thp: introduce CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Fri Mar 24 2017 - 10:11:00 EST


On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:45:00AM -0400, Zi Yan wrote:
> From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Introduces CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION to limit thp migration
> functionality to x86_64, which should be safer at the first step.
>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v1 -> v2:
> - fixed config name in subject and patch description
> ---
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 ++++
> include/linux/huge_mm.h | 10 ++++++++++
> mm/Kconfig | 3 +++
> 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index 69188841717a..a24bc11c7aed 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -2276,6 +2276,10 @@ config ARCH_ENABLE_HUGEPAGE_MIGRATION
> def_bool y
> depends on X86_64 && HUGETLB_PAGE && MIGRATION
>
> +config ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION
> + def_bool y
> + depends on X86_64 && TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE && MIGRATION
> +

TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE implies MIGRATION due to COMPACTION.


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Kirill A. Shutemov