Commit f95eb618 authored by Ryan Roberts's avatar Ryan Roberts Committed by Kalesh Singh
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BACKPORT: mm: override mTHP "enabled" defaults at kernel cmdline

Add thp_anon= cmdline parameter to allow specifying the default enablement
of each supported anon THP size.  The parameter accepts the following
format and can be provided multiple times to configure each size:

thp_anon=<size>,<size>[KMG]:<value>;<size>-<size>[KMG]:<value>

An example:

thp_anon=16K-64K:always;128K,512K:inherit;256K:madvise;1M-2M:never

See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more details.

Configuring the defaults at boot time is useful to allow early user space
to take advantage of mTHP before its been configured through sysfs.

[v-songbaohua@oppo.com: use get_oder() and check size is is_power_of_2]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240814224635.43272-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
[ryan.roberts@arm.com: some minor cleanup according to David's comments]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240820105244.62703-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240814020247.67297-1-21cnbao@gmail.com


Change-Id: Iba425c6fb91d35886eb62373181d1017597e775b
Signed-off-by: default avatarRyan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Co-developed-by: default avatarBarry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBarry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBaolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: default avatarBaolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit dd4d30d1)
[ Fix conflicts in documentation - Kalesh Singh ]
Bug: 313807618
Signed-off-by: default avatarKalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
parent e3c91ae9
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