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Rik van Riel 97562cd243 thp: disable transparent hugepages by default on small systems 
On small systems, the extra memory used by the anti-fragmentation memory
reserve and simply because huge pages are smaller than large pages can
easily outweigh the benefits of less TLB misses.

A less obvious concern is if run on a NUMA machine with asymmetric node
sizes and one of them is very small.  The reserve could make the node
unusable.

In case of the crashdump kernel, OOMs have been observed due to the
anti-fragmentation memory reserve taking up a large fraction of the
crashdump image.

This patch disables transparent hugepages on systems with less than 1GB of
RAM, but the hugepage subsystem is fully initialized so administrators can
enable THP through /sys if desired.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Avi Kiviti <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:46 -08:00
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backing-dev.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2010-10-26 17:58:44 -07:00
bootmem.c x86, memblock: Replace e820_/_early string with memblock_ 2010-08-27 11:13:47 -07:00
bounce.c bounce: call flush_dcache_page() after bounce_copy_vec() 2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
compaction.c thp: use compaction for all allocation orders 2011-01-13 17:32:46 -08:00
debug-pagealloc.c generic debug pagealloc 2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
dmapool.c mm: add a might_sleep_if() to dma_pool_alloc() 2010-10-26 16:52:08 -07:00
fadvise.c readahead: introduce FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM 2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
failslab.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
filemap_xip.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
filemap.c mm: remove likely() from grab_cache_page_write_begin() 2011-01-13 17:32:36 -08:00
fremap.c Avoid pgoff overflow in remap_file_pages 2010-09-25 09:34:58 -07:00
highmem.c mm,x86: fix kmap_atomic_push vs ioremap_32.c 2010-10-27 18:03:05 -07:00
huge_memory.c thp: disable transparent hugepages by default on small systems 2011-01-13 17:32:46 -08:00
hugetlb.c thp: clear_copy_huge_page 2011-01-13 17:32:41 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c HWPOISON, hugetlb: support hwpoison injection for hugepage 2010-08-11 09:23:11 +02:00
init-mm.c mm: provide init_mm mm_context initializer 2010-08-09 20:44:54 -07:00
internal.h thp: transparent hugepage core 2011-01-13 17:32:42 -08:00
Kconfig thp: select CONFIG_COMPACTION if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE enabled 2011-01-13 17:32:45 -08:00
Kconfig.debug trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options 2009-09-21 15:14:57 +02:00
kmemcheck.c kmemcheck: Fix build errors due to missing slab.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
kmemleak-test.c percpu: clean up percpu variable definitions 2009-06-24 15:13:48 +09:00
kmemleak.c kmemleak: Fix typo in the comment 2010-08-08 21:57:23 +01:00
ksm.c thp: freeze khugepaged and ksmd 2011-01-13 17:32:46 -08:00
maccess.c MN10300: Save frame pointer in thread_info struct rather than global var 2010-10-27 17:29:01 +01:00
madvise.c thp: madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) 2011-01-13 17:32:42 -08:00
Makefile thp: transparent hugepage core 2011-01-13 17:32:42 -08:00
memblock.c memblock: Annotate memblock functions with __init_memblock 2010-10-11 16:00:52 -07:00
memcontrol.c thp: transhuge-memcg: commit tail pages at charge 2011-01-13 17:32:43 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c thp: remove PG_buddy 2011-01-13 17:32:43 -08:00
memory-failure.c thp: split_huge_page paging 2011-01-13 17:32:41 -08:00
memory.c thp: pmd_trans_huge migrate bugcheck 2011-01-13 17:32:42 -08:00
mempolicy.c thp: add numa awareness to hugepage allocations 2011-01-13 17:32:45 -08:00
mempool.c mm: remove broken 'kzalloc' mempool 2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
migrate.c thp: pmd_trans_huge migrate bugcheck 2011-01-13 17:32:42 -08:00
mincore.c thp: mincore transparent hugepage support 2011-01-13 17:32:44 -08:00
mlock.c mlock: do not hold mmap_sem for extended periods of time 2011-01-13 17:32:36 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: mminit_loglevel cannot be __meminitdata anymore 2008-08-20 15:40:30 -07:00
mmap.c thp: avoid breaking huge pmd invariants in case of vma_adjust failures 2011-01-13 17:32:45 -08:00
mmu_context.c exit: fix oops in sync_mm_rss 2010-03-24 16:31:21 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c thp: mmu_notifier_test_young 2011-01-13 17:32:46 -08:00
mmzone.c mm: page allocator: adjust the per-cpu counter threshold when memory is low 2011-01-13 17:32:31 -08:00
mprotect.c thp: mprotect: transparent huge page support 2011-01-13 17:32:44 -08:00
mremap.c thp: split_huge_page_mm/vma 2011-01-13 17:32:41 -08:00
msync.c sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions 2010-05-21 18:31:21 -04:00
nommu.c mlock: do not hold mmap_sem for extended periods of time 2011-01-13 17:32:36 -08:00
oom_kill.c oom: kill all threads sharing oom killed task's mm 2010-10-26 16:52:05 -07:00
page_alloc.c thp: remove PG_buddy 2011-01-13 17:32:43 -08:00
page_cgroup.c kmemleak: Annotate false positive in init_section_page_cgroup() 2010-07-19 11:54:14 +01:00
page_io.c block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request 2010-08-07 18:20:39 +02:00
page_isolation.c mm: page_isolation: codeclean fix comment and rm unneeded val init 2010-10-26 16:52:11 -07:00
page-writeback.c writeback: avoid unnecessary determine_dirtyable_memory call 2011-01-13 17:32:38 -08:00
pagewalk.c thp: split_huge_page_mm/vma 2011-01-13 17:32:41 -08:00
percpu-km.c percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator 2010-10-02 10:28:42 +03:00
percpu-vm.c mm: remove gfp mask from pcpu_get_vm_areas 2011-01-13 17:32:34 -08:00
percpu.c Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-01-13 10:05:56 -08:00
pgtable-generic.c thp: add pmd mangling generic functions 2011-01-13 17:32:40 -08:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
readahead.c readahead.c: fix comment 2010-05-25 08:07:00 -07:00
rmap.c thp: transparent hugepage vmstat 2011-01-13 17:32:43 -08:00
shmem.c fs: icache RCU free inodes 2011-01-07 17:50:26 +11:00
slab.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 2011-01-10 08:38:01 -08:00
slob.c kernel: kmem_ptr_validate considered harmful 2011-01-07 17:50:16 +11:00
slub.c mm: convert sprintf_symbol to %pS 2011-01-13 17:32:33 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos 2010-11-01 15:38:34 -04:00
sparse.c thp: remove PG_buddy 2011-01-13 17:32:43 -08:00
swap_state.c thp: split_huge_page paging 2011-01-13 17:32:41 -08:00
swap.c thp: transparent hugepage core 2011-01-13 17:32:42 -08:00
swapfile.c thp: split_huge_page paging 2011-01-13 17:32:41 -08:00
thrash.c mm: pass mm to grab_swap_token 2009-06-23 12:50:05 -07:00
truncate.c Call the filesystem back whenever a page is removed from the page cache 2010-12-02 09:55:21 -05:00
util.c kernel: kmem_ptr_validate considered harmful 2011-01-07 17:50:16 +11:00
vmalloc.c vmalloc: remove redundant unlikely() 2011-01-13 17:32:36 -08:00
vmscan.c thp: use compaction in kswapd for GFP_ATOMIC order > 0 2011-01-13 17:32:46 -08:00
vmstat.c thp: transparent hugepage vmstat 2011-01-13 17:32:43 -08:00