thp: introduce CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE
authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 22:26:35 +0000 (15:26 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 23:19:19 +0000 (16:19 -0700)
commite496cf3d782135c1cca0d154d4b924517ff58de0
tree884ae0082c0b344dd9200b28ca087a3cc0973fed
parentf3f0e1d2150b2b99da2cbdfaad000089efe9bf30
thp: introduce CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE

For file mappings, we don't deposit page tables on THP allocation
because it's not strictly required to implement split_huge_pmd(): we can
just clear pmd and let following page faults to reconstruct the page
table.

But Power makes use of deposited page table to address MMU quirk.

Let's hide THP page cache, including huge tmpfs, under separate config
option, so it can be forbidden on Power.

We can revert the patch later once solution for Power found.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-36-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/shmem_fs.h
mm/Kconfig
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/khugepaged.c
mm/memory.c
mm/shmem.c