mm: make transparent hugepage size public
authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 00:44:50 +0000 (16:44 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 02:55:09 +0000 (18:55 -0800)
Test programs want to know the size of a transparent hugepage.  While it
is commonly the same as the size of a hugetlbfs page (shown as
Hugepagesize in /proc/meminfo), that is not always so: powerpc
implements transparent hugepages in a different way from hugetlbfs
pages, so it's coincidence when their sizes are the same; and x86 and
others can support more than one hugetlbfs page size.

Add /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hpage_pmd_size to show the THP
size in bytes - it's the same for Anonymous and Shmem hugepages.  Call
it hpage_pmd_size (after HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) rather than hpage_size, in case
some transparent support for pud and pgd pages is added later.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1612052200290.13021@eggly.anvils
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
mm/huge_memory.c

index 2ec6adb5a4ce155c8ac19f6df9f54cd2523b8161..c4171e4519c2b6bc18da3c4ec44e398b4c9611eb 100644 (file)
@@ -136,6 +136,11 @@ or enable it back by writing 1:
 echo 0 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/use_zero_page
 echo 1 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/use_zero_page
 
+Some userspace (such as a test program, or an optimized memory allocation
+library) may want to know the size (in bytes) of a transparent hugepage:
+
+cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hpage_pmd_size
+
 khugepaged will be automatically started when
 transparent_hugepage/enabled is set to "always" or "madvise, and it'll
 be automatically shutdown if it's set to "never".
index 2b44ac11178f6013e6cb10a507f95907dbd38e0e..cee42cf05477736e0ab08b0ae00d80a20e9eefed 100644 (file)
@@ -285,6 +285,15 @@ static ssize_t use_zero_page_store(struct kobject *kobj,
 }
 static struct kobj_attribute use_zero_page_attr =
        __ATTR(use_zero_page, 0644, use_zero_page_show, use_zero_page_store);
+
+static ssize_t hpage_pmd_size_show(struct kobject *kobj,
+               struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+       return sprintf(buf, "%lu\n", HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
+}
+static struct kobj_attribute hpage_pmd_size_attr =
+       __ATTR_RO(hpage_pmd_size);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
 static ssize_t debug_cow_show(struct kobject *kobj,
                                struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
@@ -307,6 +316,7 @@ static struct attribute *hugepage_attr[] = {
        &enabled_attr.attr,
        &defrag_attr.attr,
        &use_zero_page_attr.attr,
+       &hpage_pmd_size_attr.attr,
 #if defined(CONFIG_SHMEM) && defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE)
        &shmem_enabled_attr.attr,
 #endif