From: Nick Piggin Add an hugepagesz=... option similar to IA64, PPC etc. to x86-64. This finally allows to select GB pages for hugetlbfs in x86 now that all the infrastructure is in place. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 11 +++++++++-- arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ include/asm-x86/page.h | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt~x86-add-hugepagesz-option-on-64-bit Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt~x86-add-hugepagesz-option-on-64-bit +++ a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -757,8 +757,15 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. hisax= [HW,ISDN] See Documentation/isdn/README.HiSax. - hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] Maximal number of HugeTLB pages. - hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC] The size of the HugeTLB pages. + hugepages= [HW,X86-32,IA-64] HugeTLB pages to allocate at boot. + hugepagesz= [HW,IA-64,PPC,X86-64] The size of the HugeTLB pages. + On x86 this option can be specified multiple times + interleaved with hugepages= to reserve huge pages + of different sizes. Valid pages sizes on x86-64 + are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G (when the + CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag) + Note that 1GB pages can only be allocated at boot time + using hugepages= and not freed afterwards. i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from diff -puN arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c~x86-add-hugepagesz-option-on-64-bit arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c --- a/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c~x86-add-hugepagesz-option-on-64-bit +++ a/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c @@ -425,3 +425,20 @@ hugetlb_get_unmapped_area(struct file *f #endif /*HAVE_ARCH_HUGETLB_UNMAPPED_AREA*/ +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 +static __init int setup_hugepagesz(char *opt) +{ + unsigned long ps = memparse(opt, &opt); + if (ps == PMD_SIZE) { + hugetlb_add_hstate(PMD_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT); + } else if (ps == PUD_SIZE && cpu_has_gbpages) { + hugetlb_add_hstate(PUD_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT); + } else { + printk(KERN_ERR "hugepagesz: Unsupported page size %lu M\n", + ps >> 20); + return 0; + } + return 1; +} +__setup("hugepagesz=", setup_hugepagesz); +#endif diff -puN include/asm-x86/page.h~x86-add-hugepagesz-option-on-64-bit include/asm-x86/page.h --- a/include/asm-x86/page.h~x86-add-hugepagesz-option-on-64-bit +++ a/include/asm-x86/page.h @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ #define HPAGE_MASK (~(HPAGE_SIZE - 1)) #define HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER (HPAGE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) +#define HUGE_MAX_HSTATE 2 + /* to align the pointer to the (next) page boundary */ #define PAGE_ALIGN(addr) (((addr)+PAGE_SIZE-1)&PAGE_MASK) _