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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-07-02 12:08:10 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-07-02 12:08:10 -0700
commit71bd9341011f626d692aabe024f099820f02c497 (patch)
treea1c27fd8f17daff36e380800c5b69769d0d9cc99 /Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
parent3dbdb38e286903ec220aaf1fb29a8d94297da246 (diff)
parentb869d5be0acf0e125e69adcffdca04000dc5b17c (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: "190 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, kconfig, proc, z3fold, zbud, ras, mempolicy, memblock, migration, thp, nommu, kconfig, madvise, memory-hotplug, zswap, zsmalloc, zram, cleanups, kfence, and hmm), procfs, sysctl, misc, core-kernel, lib, lz4, checkpatch, init, kprobes, nilfs2, hfs, signals, exec, kcov, selftests, compress/decompress, and ipc" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (190 commits) ipc/util.c: use binary search for max_idx ipc/sem.c: use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for use_global_lock ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation lib/decompressors: remove set but not used variabled 'level' selftests/vm/pkeys: exercise x86 XSAVE init state selftests/vm/pkeys: refill shadow register after implicit kernel write selftests/vm/pkeys: handle negative sys_pkey_alloc() return code selftests/vm/pkeys: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really, really random kcov: add __no_sanitize_coverage to fix noinstr for all architectures exec: remove checks in __register_bimfmt() x86: signal: don't do sas_ss_reset() until we are certain that sigframe won't be abandoned hfsplus: report create_date to kstat.btime hfsplus: remove unnecessary oom message nilfs2: remove redundant continue statement in a while-loop kprobes: remove duplicated strong free_insn_page in x86 and s390 init: print out unknown kernel parameters checkpatch: do not complain about positive return values starting with EPOLL checkpatch: improve the indented label test checkpatch: scripts/spdxcheck.py now requires python3 ...
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@@ -1594,6 +1594,23 @@
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst.
Format: size[KMG]
+ hugetlb_free_vmemmap=
+ [KNL] Reguires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP
+ enabled.
+ Allows heavy hugetlb users to free up some more
+ memory (6 * PAGE_SIZE for each 2MB hugetlb page).
+ Format: { on | off (default) }
+
+ on: enable the feature
+ off: disable the feature
+
+ Built with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_FREE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON=y,
+ the default is on.
+
+ This is not compatible with memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
+ If both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
+ precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
+
hung_task_panic=
[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
Format: 0 | 1
@@ -2860,6 +2877,10 @@
Note that even when enabled, there are a few cases where
the feature is not effective.
+ This is not compatible with hugetlb_free_vmemmap. If
+ both parameters are enabled, hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
+ precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.
+
memtest= [KNL,X86,ARM,PPC,RISCV] Enable memtest
Format: <integer>
default : 0 <disable>