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thp: introduce sysfs knob to disable huge zero page
authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:18:01 +0000 (14:18 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 5 Dec 2012 05:23:17 +0000 (16:23 +1100)
commit124a293c7b501c1f3654e4f46756a5f4224735ee
treed329f9ee3fc0755f94b42900a97cb64bf99bc7ee
parent2c2bbca749b156a3521e2c1179a16cd02166b4d8
thp: introduce sysfs knob to disable huge zero page

By default kernel tries to use huge zero page on read page fault.  It's
possible to disable huge zero page by writing 0 or enable it back by
writing 1:

echo 0 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/use_zero_page
echo 1 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/use_zero_page

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
include/linux/huge_mm.h
mm/huge_memory.c