From: "Maíra Canal" <mcanal@igalia.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, kernel-dev@igalia.com,
"Maíra Canal" <mcanal@igalia.com>
Subject: [PATCH] mm: Update shuffle documentation to match its current state
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:18:40 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240422142007.1062231-1-mcanal@igalia.com> (raw)
Commit 839195352d82 ("mm/shuffle: remove dynamic reconfiguration")
removed the dynamic reconfiguration capabilities from the shuffle page
allocator. This means that, now, we don't have any perspective of an
"autodetection of memory-side-cache" that triggers the enablement of the
shuffle page allocator.
Therefore, let the documentation reflect that the only way to enable
the shuffle page allocator is by setting `page_alloc.shuffle=1`.
Signed-off-by: Maíra Canal <mcanal@igalia.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 10 ++++------
mm/Kconfig | 7 +++----
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 902ecd92a29f..924bb8ddd8a8 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4170,13 +4170,11 @@
page_alloc.shuffle=
[KNL] Boolean flag to control whether the page allocator
- should randomize its free lists. The randomization may
- be automatically enabled if the kernel detects it is
- running on a platform with a direct-mapped memory-side
- cache, and this parameter can be used to
- override/disable that behavior. The state of the flag
- can be read from sysfs at:
+ should randomize its free lists. This parameter can be
+ used to enable/disable page randomization. The state of
+ the flag can be read from sysfs at:
/sys/module/page_alloc/parameters/shuffle.
+ This parameter is only available if CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y.
page_owner= [KNL,EARLY] Boot-time page_owner enabling option.
Storage of the information about who allocated
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index b1448aa81e15..f30a18a0e37d 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -333,10 +333,9 @@ config SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR
While the randomization improves cache utilization it may
negatively impact workloads on platforms without a cache. For
- this reason, by default, the randomization is enabled only
- after runtime detection of a direct-mapped memory-side-cache.
- Otherwise, the randomization may be force enabled with the
- 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
+ this reason, by default, the randomization is not enabled even
+ if SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y. The randomization may be force enabled
+ with the 'page_alloc.shuffle' kernel command line parameter.
Say Y if unsure.
--
2.44.0
next reply other threads:[~2024-04-22 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-22 14:18 Maíra Canal [this message]
2024-04-22 15:13 ` [PATCH] mm: Update shuffle documentation to match its current state David Hildenbrand
2024-04-24 19:05 ` Jonathan Corbet
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