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Currently, gigantic hugepages cannot use the overcommit mechanism
(nr_overcommit_hugepages), forcing users to permanently reserve memory via
nr_hugepages even when pages might not be actively used.
The restriction was added in 2011 [1], which was before there was support
for reserving 1G hugepages at runtime. Remove this blanket restriction on
gigantic hugepage overcommit. This will bring the same benefits to
gigantic pages as hugepages:
- Memory is only taken out of regular use when actually needed
- Unused surplus pages can be returned to the system
- Better memory utilization, especially with CMA backing which can
significantly increase the changes of hugepage allocation
Without this patch:
echo 3 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_overcommit_hugepages
bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
With this patch:
echo 3 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_overcommit_hugepages
./mmap_hugetlb_test
Successfully allocated huge pages at address: 0x7f9d40000000
cat mmap_hugetlb_test.c
...
unsigned long ALLOC_SIZE = 3 * (unsigned long) HUGE_PAGE_SIZE;
addr = mmap(NULL,
ALLOC_SIZE, // 3GB
PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_HUGETLB | MAP_HUGE_1GB,
-1,
0);
if (addr == MAP_FAILED) {
fprintf(stderr, "mmap failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
return 1;
}
printf("Successfully allocated huge pages at address: %p\n", addr);
...
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251009172433.4158118-2-usamaarif642@gmail.com
Link: https://git.zx2c4.com/linux-rng/commit/mm/hugetlb.c?id=adbe8726dc2a3805630d517270db17e3af86e526 [1]
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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