Commit 944d9fec authored by Luiz Capitulino's avatar Luiz Capitulino Committed by Linus Torvalds
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hugetlb: add support for gigantic page allocation at runtime

HugeTLB is limited to allocating hugepages whose size are less than
MAX_ORDER order.  This is so because HugeTLB allocates hugepages via the
buddy allocator.  Gigantic pages (that is, pages whose size is greater
than MAX_ORDER order) have to be allocated at boottime.

However, boottime allocation has at least two serious problems.  First,
it doesn't support NUMA and second, gigantic pages allocated at boottime
can't be freed.

This commit solves both issues by adding support for allocating gigantic
pages during runtime.  It works just like regular sized hugepages,
meaning that the interface in sysfs is the same, it supports NUMA, and
gigantic pages can be freed.

For example, on x86_64 gigantic pages are 1GB big. To allocate two 1G
gigantic pages on node 1, one can do:

 # echo 2 > \
   /sys/devices/system/node/node1/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages

And to free them all:

 # echo 0 > \
   /sys/devices/system/node/node1/hugepages/hugep...
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