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mm/hugetlb: add hugetlb_cma_only cmdline option
authorFrank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
Fri, 28 Feb 2025 18:29:26 +0000 (18:29 +0000)
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 17 Mar 2025 05:06:31 +0000 (22:06 -0700)
commitf866cfcec20cdc16955bca255424be255764d2e7
tree585f9c7988a6700adcf5f7d281b4fdb36172f025
parent85abcd023640067fcbb6e23c45e8a0014dbba11d
mm/hugetlb: add hugetlb_cma_only cmdline option

Add an option to force hugetlb gigantic pages to be allocated using CMA
only (if hugetlb_cma is enabled).  This avoids a fallback to allocation
from the rest of system memory if the CMA allocation fails.  This makes
the size of hugetlb_cma a hard upper boundary for gigantic hugetlb page
allocations.

This is useful because, with a large CMA area, the kernel's unmovable
allocations will have less room to work with and it is undesirable for new
hugetlb gigantic page allocations to be done from that remaining area.  It
will eat in to the space available for unmovable allocations, leading to
unwanted system behavior (OOMs because the kernel fails to do unmovable
allocations).

So, with this enabled, an administrator can force a hard upper bound for
runtime gigantic page allocations, and have more predictable system
behavior.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250228182928.2645936-26-fvdl@google.com
Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
mm/hugetlb.c