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authorDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>2025-03-03 17:30:08 +0100
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2025-03-17 22:06:46 -0700
commite63ee43e3edaacfca04454b34aee8d5e303953df (patch)
tree05900329f036ea7040d9947594286a7767f65cbf
parent003fde4492c88ac3a1fee3d97b3834a679780af3 (diff)
mm: CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT to prepare for not maintain per-page mapcounts in large folios
We're close to the finishing line: let's introduce a new CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT config option where we will incrementally remove any dependencies on per-page mapcounts in large folios. Once that's done, we'll stop maintaining the per-page mapcounts with this config option enabled. CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT will be EXPERIMENTAL for now, as we'll have to learn about some of the real world impact of some of the implications. As writing "!CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT" is really nasty, let's introduce a helper config option "CONFIG_PAGE_MAPCOUNT" that expresses the negation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250303163014.1128035-16-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirks^H^Hski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcow (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Koutn <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: tejun heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index a25c5476b3ad4..4a4e7b63d30a8 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -887,8 +887,25 @@ config READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS
support of file THPs will be developed in the next few release
cycles.
+config NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT
+ bool "No per-page mapcount (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ help
+ Do not maintain per-page mapcounts for pages part of larger
+ allocations, such as transparent huge pages.
+
+ When this config option is enabled, some interfaces that relied on
+ this information will rely on less-precise per-allocation information
+ instead: for example, using the average per-page mapcount in such
+ a large allocation instead of the per-page mapcount.
+
+ EXPERIMENTAL because the impact of some changes is still unclear.
+
endif # TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+# simple helper to make the code a bit easier to read
+config PAGE_MAPCOUNT
+ def_bool !NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT
+
#
# The architecture supports pgtable leaves that is larger than PAGE_SIZE
#