[PATCH 3/3] x86: Support huge vmalloc mappings

From: Kefeng Wang
Date: Sun Dec 26 2021 - 03:30:02 EST


This patch select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC to let X86_64 and X86_PAE
support huge vmalloc mappings, it is disabled by default, use
hugevmalloc=on to enable it.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++--
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 235a23b08809..5c8780e66be2 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1630,7 +1630,7 @@
precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory.


- hugevmalloc= [KNL,PPC,ARM64] Reguires CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC
+ hugevmalloc= [KNL,PPC,ARM64,X86] Reguires CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC
Format: { on | off }
Default set by CONFIG_HUGE_VMALLOC_DEFAULT_ENABLED.

@@ -3415,7 +3415,7 @@

nohugeiomap [KNL,X86,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge I/O mappings.

- nohugevmalloc [KNL,PPC,ARM64] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.
+ nohugevmalloc [KNL,PPC,ARM64,X86] Disable kernel huge vmalloc mappings.

nosmt [KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
Equivalent to smt=1.
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 5c2ccb85f2ef..31e465fecd01 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ config X86
select HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI if ACPI
select HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE if SLUB
select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
+ select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC if HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP
select HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP if X86_64 || X86_PAE
select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL
select HAVE_ARCH_JUMP_LABEL_RELATIVE
--
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