From: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
david@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org, shakeel.butt@linux.dev, riel@surriel.com,
ziy@nvidia.com, laoar.shao@gmail.com,
baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com, lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com,
Liam.Howlett@oracle.com, npache@redhat.com, ryan.roberts@arm.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-team@meta.com, Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 6/6] docs: transhuge: document process level THP controls
Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 14:33:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250515133519.2779639-7-usamaarif642@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250515133519.2779639-1-usamaarif642@gmail.com>
This includes the already existing PR_GET/SET_THP_DISABLE policy,
as well as the newly introduced PR_GET/SET_THP_POLICY.
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
index dff8d5985f0f..cf3092eb239a 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
@@ -218,6 +218,46 @@ to "always" or "madvise"), and it'll be automatically shutdown when
PMD-sized THP is disabled (when both the per-size anon control and the
top-level control are "never")
+process THP controls
+--------------------
+
+Transparent Hugepage behaviour of a process can be modified/obtained by
+using the prctl system call. The following operations are supported:
+
+PR_SET_THP_DISABLE
+ This will set the MMF_DISABLE_THP process flag which will result
+ in no hugepages being faulted in or collapsed by khugepaged,
+ irrespective of global THP controls.
+
+PR_GET_THP_DISABLE
+ This will return the MMF_DISABLE_THP process flag, which will be
+ set if the process has previously been set with PR_SET_THP_DISABLE.
+
+PR_SET_THP_POLICY
+ This is used to change the behaviour of existing and future VMAs.
+ It has support for the following policies:
+
+ PR_THP_POLICY_DEFAULT_HUGE
+ This will set the MMF2_THP_VMA_DEFAULT_HUGE process flag which
+ changes the default of new VMAs to be VM_HUGEPAGE. The call
+ also modifies all existing VMAs that are not VM_NOHUGEPAGE
+ to be VM_HUGEPAGE. The policy is inherited during fork+exec.
+
+ PR_THP_POLICY_DEFAULT_NOHUGE
+ This will set the MMF2_THP_VMA_DEFAULT_NOHUGE process flag which
+ changes the default of new VMAs to be VM_NOHUGEPAGE. The call
+ also modifies all existing VMAs that are not VM_HUGEPAGE
+ to be VM_NOHUGEPAGE. The policy is inherited during fork+exec.
+
+ PR_THP_POLICY_DEFAULT_SYSTEM
+ This will clear both MMF2_THP_VMA_DEFAULT_HUGE and
+ MMF2_THP_VMA_DEFAULT_NOHUGE process flags.
+
+PR_SET_THP_POLICY
+ This will return the current THP policy of the process, i.e.
+ PR_THP_POLICY_DEFAULT_HUGE, PR_THP_POLICY_DEFAULT_NOHUGE or
+ PR_THP_POLICY_DEFAULT_SYSTEM.
+
Khugepaged controls
-------------------
--
2.47.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-05-15 13:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-15 13:33 [PATCH 0/6] prctl: introduce PR_SET/GET_THP_POLICY Usama Arif
2025-05-15 13:33 ` [PATCH 1/6] prctl: introduce PR_THP_POLICY_DEFAULT_HUGE for the process Usama Arif
2025-05-15 14:40 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-15 14:44 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-15 14:56 ` Usama Arif
2025-05-15 14:58 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-15 15:18 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-15 15:45 ` Liam R. Howlett
2025-05-15 15:57 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-15 16:38 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-15 17:29 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-15 18:09 ` Liam R. Howlett
2025-05-15 18:21 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-15 18:42 ` Zi Yan
2025-05-15 21:04 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-15 18:46 ` Usama Arif
2025-05-15 19:20 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-15 15:28 ` Usama Arif
2025-05-15 16:06 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-15 16:11 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-15 18:08 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-15 19:12 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-15 20:35 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-16 7:45 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-16 10:57 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-16 11:24 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-16 12:57 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-16 17:19 ` Usama Arif
2025-05-16 17:51 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-16 19:34 ` Usama Arif
2025-05-17 16:20 ` Is number of process_madvise()-able ranges limited to 8? (was Re: [PATCH 1/6] prctl: introduce PR_THP_POLICY_DEFAULT_HUGE for the process) SeongJae Park
2025-05-17 18:50 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-17 20:25 ` SeongJae Park
2025-05-17 19:01 ` [PATCH 1/6] prctl: introduce PR_THP_POLICY_DEFAULT_HUGE for the process Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-15 16:47 ` Usama Arif
2025-05-15 18:36 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-15 19:17 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-15 20:42 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-16 6:12 ` kernel test robot
2025-05-15 13:33 ` [PATCH 2/6] prctl: introduce PR_THP_POLICY_DEFAULT_NOHUGE " Usama Arif
2025-05-16 8:19 ` kernel test robot
2025-05-15 13:33 ` [PATCH 3/6] prctl: introduce PR_THP_POLICY_SYSTEM " Usama Arif
2025-05-15 13:33 ` [PATCH 4/6] selftests: prctl: introduce tests for PR_THP_POLICY_DEFAULT_NOHUGE Usama Arif
2025-05-15 13:33 ` [PATCH 5/6] selftests: prctl: introduce tests for PR_THP_POLICY_DEFAULT_HUGE Usama Arif
2025-05-15 13:33 ` Usama Arif [this message]
2025-05-15 13:55 ` [PATCH 0/6] prctl: introduce PR_SET/GET_THP_POLICY Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-15 14:50 ` Usama Arif
2025-05-15 15:15 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2025-05-15 15:54 ` Usama Arif
2025-05-15 16:04 ` David Hildenbrand
2025-05-15 16:24 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
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