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Many places in the kernel need to zero out larger chunks, but the maximum segment that can be zeroed out at a time by ZERO_PAGE is limited by PAGE_SIZE. This is especially annoying in block devices and filesystems where multiple ZERO_PAGEs are attached to the bio in different bvecs. With multipage bvec support in block layer, it is much more efficient to send out larger zero pages as a part of single bvec. This concern was raised during the review of adding Large Block Size support to XFS[1][2]. Usually huge_zero_folio is allocated on demand, and it will be deallocated by the shrinker if there are no users of it left. At moment, huge_zero_folio infrastructure refcount is tied to the process lifetime that created it. This might not work for bio layer as the completions can be async and the process that created the huge_zero_folio might no longer be alive. And, one of the main points that came up during discussion is to have something bigger than zero page as a drop-in replacement. Add a config option PERSISTENT_HUGE_ZERO_FOLIO that will result in allocating the huge zero folio during early init and never free the memory by disabling the shrinker. This makes using the huge_zero_folio without having to pass any mm struct and does not tie the lifetime of the zero folio to anything, making it a drop-in replacement for ZERO_PAGE. If PERSISTENT_HUGE_ZERO_FOLIO config option is enabled, then mm_get_huge_zero_folio() will simply return the allocated page instead of dynamically allocating a new PMD page. Use this option carefully in resource constrained systems as it uses one full PMD sized page for zeroing purposes. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20231027051847.GA7885@lst.de/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/ZitIK5OnR7ZNY0IG@infradead.org/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250811084113.647267-4-kernel@pankajraghav.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Co-developed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org> Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Luis Chamberalin <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.