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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 # |