linux/mm
Michal Hocko d6cb41cc44 mm, hugetlb: remove hugepages_treat_as_movable sysctl
hugepages_treat_as_movable has been introduced by 396faf0303 ("Allow
huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE") to allow hugetlb
allocations from ZONE_MOVABLE even when hugetlb pages were not
migrateable.  The purpose of the movable zone was different at the time.
It aimed at reducing memory fragmentation and hugetlb pages being long
lived and large werre not contributing to the fragmentation so it was
acceptable to use the zone back then.

Things have changed though and the primary purpose of the zone became
migratability guarantee.  If we allow non migrateable hugetlb pages to
be in ZONE_MOVABLE memory hotplug might fail to offline the memory.

Remove the knob and only rely on hugepage_migration_supported to allow
movable zones.

Mel said:

: Primarily it was aimed at allowing the hugetlb pool to safely shrink with
: the ability to grow it again.  The use case was for batched jobs, some of
: which needed huge pages and others that did not but didn't want the memory
: useless pinned in the huge pages pool.
:
: I suspect that more users rely on THP than hugetlbfs for flexible use of
: huge pages with fallback options so I think that removing the option
: should be ok.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171003072619.8654-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-01-31 17:18:37 -08:00
..
kasan kasan: use %px to print addresses instead of %p 2017-11-29 12:13:16 +11:00
backing-dev.c Revert "bdi: add error handle for bdi_debug_register" 2017-12-21 10:01:30 -07:00
balloon_compaction.c virtio_balloon: fix deadlock on OOM 2017-11-14 23:57:38 +02:00
bootmem.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
cleancache.c fs: switch ->s_uuid to uuid_t 2017-06-05 16:59:12 +02:00
cma_debug.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
cma.c mm/cma.c: change pr_info to pr_err for cma_alloc fail log 2017-11-15 18:21:03 -08:00
cma.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
compaction.c mm, compaction: remove unneeded pageblock_skip_persistent() checks 2017-11-17 16:10:00 -08:00
debug_page_ref.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
debug.c mm/debug.c: provide useful debugging information for VM_BUG 2018-01-04 16:45:09 -08:00
dmapool.c lib/vsprintf.c: remove %Z support 2017-02-27 18:43:47 -08:00
early_ioremap.c mm/early_ioremap: Fix boot hang with earlyprintk=efi,keep 2017-12-11 14:54:44 +01:00
fadvise.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
failslab.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
filemap.c mm/filemap.c: remove include of hardirq.h 2018-01-31 17:18:36 -08:00
frame_vector.c mm/frame_vector.c: release a semaphore in 'get_vaddr_frames()' 2017-12-14 16:00:48 -08:00
frontswap.c mm, frontswap: convert frontswap_enabled to static key 2016-07-26 16:19:19 -07:00
gup_benchmark.c mm: add infrastructure for get_user_pages_fast() benchmarking 2017-11-17 16:10:04 -08:00
gup.c Merge branch 'work.get_user_pages_fast' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-31 10:01:08 -08:00
highmem.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
hmm.c Revert "mm: replace p??_write with pte_access_permitted in fault + gup paths" 2017-12-15 18:53:22 -08:00
huge_memory.c Revert "mm: replace p??_write with pte_access_permitted in fault + gup paths" 2017-12-15 18:53:22 -08:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c mm, hugetlb_cgroup: round limit_in_bytes down to hugepage size 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -07:00
hugetlb.c mm, hugetlb: remove hugepages_treat_as_movable sysctl 2018-01-31 17:18:37 -08:00
hwpoison-inject.c mm/memory_failure: Remove unused trapno from memory_failure 2018-01-23 12:17:42 -06:00
init-mm.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
internal.h Revert "mm, thp: Do not make pmd/pud dirty without a reason" 2017-11-29 09:01:01 -08:00
interval_tree.c mm/interval_tree.c: use vma_pages() helper 2018-01-31 17:18:37 -08:00
Kconfig mm: relax deferred struct page requirements 2018-01-31 17:18:36 -08:00
Kconfig.debug kmemcheck: rip it out 2017-11-15 18:21:05 -08:00
khugepaged.c Revert "mm, thp: Do not make pmd/pud dirty without a reason" 2017-11-29 09:01:01 -08:00
kmemleak-test.c mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level> 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
kmemleak.c mm: kmemleak: remove unused hardirq.h 2018-01-31 17:18:36 -08:00
ksm.c mm/ksm: Remove now-redundant smp_read_barrier_depends() 2017-12-04 10:52:56 -08:00
list_lru.c mm/list_lru.c: mark expected switch fall-through 2017-11-15 18:21:07 -08:00
maccess.c x86: remove more uaccess_32.h complexity 2016-05-22 17:21:27 -07:00
madvise.c mm/memory_failure: Remove unused trapno from memory_failure 2018-01-23 12:17:42 -06:00
Makefile mm: add infrastructure for get_user_pages_fast() benchmarking 2017-11-17 16:10:04 -08:00
memblock.c mm: define memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid_raw 2017-11-15 18:21:05 -08:00
memcontrol.c mm: memcontrol: fix excessive complexity in memory.stat reporting 2018-01-31 17:18:36 -08:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: drop hotplug lock from lru_add_drain_all() 2018-01-31 17:18:36 -08:00
memory-failure.c signal/memory-failure: Use force_sig_mceerr and send_sig_mceerr 2018-01-23 12:17:48 -06:00
memory.c mm/memory.c: release locked page in do_swap_page() 2018-01-19 10:09:40 -08:00
mempolicy.c mm/mempolicy: add nodes_empty check in SYSC_migrate_pages 2018-01-31 17:18:36 -08:00
mempool.c mm/mempool.c: use kmalloc_array_node() 2017-11-15 18:21:02 -08:00
memtest.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
migrate.c Revert "mm, thp: Do not make pmd/pud dirty without a reason" 2017-11-29 09:01:01 -08:00
mincore.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mlock.c mm: Eliminate cond_resched_rcu_qs() in favor of cond_resched() 2017-11-28 16:00:28 -08:00
mm_init.c mm: convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level> 2016-03-17 15:09:34 -07:00
mmap.c mm, oom_reaper: fix memory corruption 2017-12-14 16:00:49 -08:00
mmu_context.c sched/headers: Prepare to move the task_lock()/unlock() APIs to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:38 +01:00
mmu_notifier.c mm/mmu_notifier: avoid call to invalidate_range() in range_end() 2017-11-15 18:21:03 -08:00
mmzone.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mprotect.c mm/mprotect: add a cond_resched() inside change_pmd_range() 2018-01-04 16:45:09 -08:00
mremap.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
msync.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
nobootmem.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
nommu.c Merge branch 'work.set_fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:13:32 -07:00
oom_kill.c mm, oom_reaper: fix memory corruption 2017-12-14 16:00:49 -08:00
page_alloc.c mm/page_alloc.c: fix comment in __get_free_pages() 2018-01-31 17:18:36 -08:00
page_counter.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
page_ext.c mm/page_ext.c: check if page_ext is not prepared 2017-11-15 18:21:07 -08:00
page_idle.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
page_io.c block: convert to bio_first_bvec_all & bio_first_page_all 2018-01-06 09:18:00 -07:00
page_isolation.c mm: distinguish CMA and MOVABLE isolation in has_unmovable_pages() 2017-11-15 18:21:02 -08:00
page_owner.c mm/page_owner.c: use PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() 2018-01-31 17:18:36 -08:00
page_poison.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
page_vma_mapped.c mm, page_vma_mapped: Introduce pfn_in_hpage() 2018-01-22 12:15:57 -08:00
page-writeback.c Revert "mm/page-writeback.c: print a warning if the vm dirtiness settings are illogical" 2017-11-29 18:40:43 -08:00
pagewalk.c mm/pagewalk.c: report holes in hugetlb ranges 2017-11-15 13:12:08 -08:00
percpu-internal.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
percpu-km.c percpu: replace area map allocator with bitmap 2017-07-26 17:41:05 -04:00
percpu-stats.c percpu: fix starting offset for chunk statistics traversal 2017-09-27 14:45:57 -07:00
percpu-vm.c mm: remove __GFP_COLD 2017-11-15 18:21:06 -08:00
percpu.c percpu: hack to let the CRIS architecture to boot until they clean up 2017-11-27 12:53:12 -08:00
pgtable-generic.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
process_vm_access.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/mm.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:28 +01:00
quicklist.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
readahead.c mm: don't cap request size based on read-ahead setting 2016-12-12 18:55:08 -08:00
rmap.c mm: remove cold parameter from free_hot_cold_page* 2017-11-15 18:21:06 -08:00
rodata_test.c mm: fix RODATA_TEST failure "rodata_test: test data was not read only" 2017-10-03 17:54:24 -07:00
shmem.c Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -> SB_xyz) 2017-11-27 13:05:09 -08:00
slab_common.c mm/slab_common.c: make calculate_alignment() static 2018-01-31 17:18:35 -08:00
slab.c mm/slab.c: remove redundant assignments for slab_state 2018-01-31 17:18:35 -08:00
slab.h mm/slab_common.c: make calculate_alignment() static 2018-01-31 17:18:35 -08:00
slob.c slab, slub, slob: add slab_flags_t 2017-11-15 18:21:01 -08:00
slub.c slub: remove obsolete comments of put_cpu_partial() 2018-01-31 17:18:36 -08:00
sparse-vmemmap.c mm, sparse: do not swamp log with huge vmemmap allocation failures 2017-11-15 18:21:07 -08:00
sparse.c mm/sparse.c: wrong allocation for mem_section 2018-01-04 16:45:09 -08:00
swap_cgroup.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
swap_slots.c mm/swap_slots.c: fix race conditions in swap_slots cache init 2017-11-15 18:21:03 -08:00
swap_state.c mm: remove cold parameter for release_pages 2017-11-15 18:21:06 -08:00
swap.c mm: drop hotplug lock from lru_add_drain_all() 2018-01-31 17:18:36 -08:00
swapfile.c ipc, kernel, mm: annotate ->poll() instances 2017-11-27 16:20:05 -05:00
truncate.c mm, pagevec: remove cold parameter for pagevecs 2017-11-15 18:21:06 -08:00
usercopy.c mm/usercopy: Drop extra is_vmalloc_or_module() check 2017-04-05 12:30:18 -07:00
userfaultfd.c userfaultfd: shmem: wire up shmem_mfill_zeropage_pte 2017-09-06 17:27:28 -07:00
util.c new primitive: vmemdup_user() 2018-01-07 13:06:15 -05:00
vmacache.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
vmalloc.c Revert "vmalloc: back off when the current task is killed" 2017-10-13 16:18:32 -07:00
vmpressure.c mm, vmpressure: pass-through notification support 2017-07-10 16:32:31 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: remove unused pgdat_reclaimable_pages() 2018-01-31 17:18:37 -08:00
vmstat.c mm, sysctl: make NUMA stats configurable 2017-11-15 18:21:07 -08:00
workingset.c mm, truncate: do not check mapping for every page being truncated 2017-11-15 18:21:06 -08:00
z3fold.c mm/z3fold.c: use kref to prevent page free/compact race 2017-11-17 16:10:00 -08:00
zbud.c mm/zbud.c: use list_last_entry() instead of list_tail_entry() 2016-01-15 11:40:52 -08:00
zpool.c mm: zsmalloc: constify struct zs_pool name 2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
zsmalloc.c mm/zsmalloc.c: include fs.h 2018-01-04 16:45:09 -08:00
zswap.c zswap: same-filled pages handling 2018-01-31 17:18:36 -08:00