A higher value may increase memory footprint for some workloads.
 
-Boot parameter
-==============
-
-You can change the sysfs boot time defaults of Transparent Hugepage
-Support by passing the parameter ``transparent_hugepage=always`` or
-``transparent_hugepage=madvise`` or ``transparent_hugepage=never``
-to the kernel command line.
+Boot parameters
+===============
+
+You can change the sysfs boot time default for the top-level "enabled"
+control by passing the parameter ``transparent_hugepage=always`` or
+``transparent_hugepage=madvise`` or ``transparent_hugepage=never`` to the
+kernel command line.
+
+Alternatively, each supported anonymous THP size can be controlled by
+passing ``thp_anon=<size>,<size>[KMG]:<state>;<size>-<size>[KMG]:<state>``,
+where ``<size>`` is the THP size (must be a power of 2 of PAGE_SIZE and
+supported anonymous THP)  and ``<state>`` is one of ``always``, ``madvise``,
+``never`` or ``inherit``.
+
+For example, the following will set 16K, 32K, 64K THP to ``always``,
+set 128K, 512K to ``inherit``, set 256K to ``madvise`` and 1M, 2M
+to ``never``::
+
+       thp_anon=16K-64K:always;128K,512K:inherit;256K:madvise;1M-2M:never
+
+``thp_anon=`` may be specified multiple times to configure all THP sizes as
+required. If ``thp_anon=`` is specified at least once, any anon THP sizes
+not explicitly configured on the command line are implicitly set to
+``never``.
+
+``transparent_hugepage`` setting only affects the global toggle. If
+``thp_anon`` is not specified, PMD_ORDER THP will default to ``inherit``.
+However, if a valid ``thp_anon`` setting is provided by the user, the
+PMD_ORDER THP policy will be overridden. If the policy for PMD_ORDER
+is not defined within a valid ``thp_anon``, its policy will default to
+``never``.
 
 Hugepages in tmpfs/shmem
 ========================
 
 unsigned long huge_anon_orders_always __read_mostly;
 unsigned long huge_anon_orders_madvise __read_mostly;
 unsigned long huge_anon_orders_inherit __read_mostly;
+static bool anon_orders_configured __initdata;
 
 unsigned long __thp_vma_allowable_orders(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
                                         unsigned long vm_flags,
         * disable all other sizes. powerpc's PMD_ORDER isn't a compile-time
         * constant so we have to do this here.
         */
-       huge_anon_orders_inherit = BIT(PMD_ORDER);
+       if (!anon_orders_configured)
+               huge_anon_orders_inherit = BIT(PMD_ORDER);
 
        *hugepage_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("transparent_hugepage", mm_kobj);
        if (unlikely(!*hugepage_kobj)) {
 }
 __setup("transparent_hugepage=", setup_transparent_hugepage);
 
+static inline int get_order_from_str(const char *size_str)
+{
+       unsigned long size;
+       char *endptr;
+       int order;
+
+       size = memparse(size_str, &endptr);
+
+       if (!is_power_of_2(size))
+               goto err;
+       order = get_order(size);
+       if (BIT(order) & ~THP_ORDERS_ALL_ANON)
+               goto err;
+
+       return order;
+err:
+       pr_err("invalid size %s in thp_anon boot parameter\n", size_str);
+       return -EINVAL;
+}
+
+static char str_dup[PAGE_SIZE] __initdata;
+static int __init setup_thp_anon(char *str)
+{
+       char *token, *range, *policy, *subtoken;
+       unsigned long always, inherit, madvise;
+       char *start_size, *end_size;
+       int start, end, nr;
+       char *p;
+
+       if (!str || strlen(str) + 1 > PAGE_SIZE)
+               goto err;
+       strcpy(str_dup, str);
+
+       always = huge_anon_orders_always;
+       madvise = huge_anon_orders_madvise;
+       inherit = huge_anon_orders_inherit;
+       p = str_dup;
+       while ((token = strsep(&p, ";")) != NULL) {
+               range = strsep(&token, ":");
+               policy = token;
+
+               if (!policy)
+                       goto err;
+
+               while ((subtoken = strsep(&range, ",")) != NULL) {
+                       if (strchr(subtoken, '-')) {
+                               start_size = strsep(&subtoken, "-");
+                               end_size = subtoken;
+
+                               start = get_order_from_str(start_size);
+                               end = get_order_from_str(end_size);
+                       } else {
+                               start = end = get_order_from_str(subtoken);
+                       }
+
+                       if (start < 0 || end < 0 || start > end)
+                               goto err;
+
+                       nr = end - start + 1;
+                       if (!strcmp(policy, "always")) {
+                               bitmap_set(&always, start, nr);
+                               bitmap_clear(&inherit, start, nr);
+                               bitmap_clear(&madvise, start, nr);
+                       } else if (!strcmp(policy, "madvise")) {
+                               bitmap_set(&madvise, start, nr);
+                               bitmap_clear(&inherit, start, nr);
+                               bitmap_clear(&always, start, nr);
+                       } else if (!strcmp(policy, "inherit")) {
+                               bitmap_set(&inherit, start, nr);
+                               bitmap_clear(&madvise, start, nr);
+                               bitmap_clear(&always, start, nr);
+                       } else if (!strcmp(policy, "never")) {
+                               bitmap_clear(&inherit, start, nr);
+                               bitmap_clear(&madvise, start, nr);
+                               bitmap_clear(&always, start, nr);
+                       } else {
+                               pr_err("invalid policy %s in thp_anon boot parameter\n", policy);
+                               goto err;
+                       }
+               }
+       }
+
+       huge_anon_orders_always = always;
+       huge_anon_orders_madvise = madvise;
+       huge_anon_orders_inherit = inherit;
+       anon_orders_configured = true;
+       return 1;
+
+err:
+       pr_warn("thp_anon=%s: error parsing string, ignoring setting\n", str);
+       return 0;
+}
+__setup("thp_anon=", setup_thp_anon);
+
 pmd_t maybe_pmd_mkwrite(pmd_t pmd, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
        if (likely(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE))