Re: [PATCH] docs: update THP documentation to clarify sysfs "never" setting

[David Hildenbrand]

On 22.07.25 09:20, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 21.07.25 17:55, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > Rather confusingly, setting all Transparent Huge Page sysfs settings to
> > "never" does not in fact result in THP being globally disabled.
> >
> > Rather, it results in khugepaged being disabled, but one can still obtain
> > THP pages using madvise(..., MADV_COLLAPSE).
> >
> > This is something that has remained poorly documented for some time, and it
> > is likely the received wisdom of most users of THP that never does, in
> > fact, mean never.
> >
> > It is therefore important to highlight, very clearly, that this is not the
> > ase.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> Can we also somehow tone down or clarify the "entirely disabled"?

Ah, missed that you touched that already.

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb