By digging into the original review, it looks use_zero_page sysfs knob
was added to help ease-of-testing and give user a way to mitigate
refcounting overhead.
It has been a few years since the knob was added at the first place, I
think we are confident that it is stable enough. And, since commit
6fcb52a56ff60 ("thp: reduce usage of huge zero page's atomic counter"),
it looks refcounting overhead has been reduced significantly.
Other than the above, the value of the knob is always 1 (enabled by
default), I'm supposed very few people turn it off by default.
So, it sounds not worth to still keep this knob around.
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kir...@shutemov.name>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hu...@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron...@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang....@linux.alibaba.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 7 -------
include/linux/huge_mm.h | 4 ----
mm/huge_memory.c | 22 ++--------------------
3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
index 7ab93a8..d471ce8 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
@@ -148,13 +148,6 @@ madvise
never
should be self-explanatory.
-By default kernel tries to use huge zero page on read page fault to
-anonymous mapping. It's possible to disable huge zero page by writing 0
-or enable it back by writing 1::
-
- echo 0 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/use_zero_page
- echo 1 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/use_zero_page
-
Some userspace (such as a test program, or an optimized memory allocation
library) may want to know the size (in bytes) of a transparent hugepage::
diff --git a/include/linux/huge_mm.h b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
index a8a1262..0ea7808 100644
--- a/include/linux/huge_mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/huge_mm.h
@@ -58,7 +58,6 @@ enum transparent_hugepage_flag {
TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KSWAPD_OR_MADV_FLAG,
TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_REQ_MADV_FLAG,
TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KHUGEPAGED_FLAG,
- TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_USE_ZERO_PAGE_FLAG,
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEBUG_COW_FLAG,
#endif
@@ -116,9 +115,6 @@ static inline bool transparent_hugepage_enabled(struct
vm_area_struct *vma)
return false;
}
-#define transparent_hugepage_use_zero_page() \
- (transparent_hugepage_flags & \
- (1<<TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_USE_ZERO_PAGE_FLAG))
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
#define transparent_hugepage_debug_cow() \
(transparent_hugepage_flags & \
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index 1cd7c1a..0d4cf87 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -54,8 +54,7 @@
(1<<TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_REQ_MADV_FLAG)|
#endif
(1<<TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_REQ_MADV_FLAG)|
- (1<<TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KHUGEPAGED_FLAG)|
- (1<<TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_USE_ZERO_PAGE_FLAG);
+ (1<<TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_DEFRAG_KHUGEPAGED_FLAG);
static struct shrinker deferred_split_shrinker;
@@ -273,21 +272,6 @@ static ssize_t defrag_store(struct kobject *kobj,
static struct kobj_attribute defrag_attr =
__ATTR(defrag, 0644, defrag_show, defrag_store);
-static ssize_t use_zero_page_show(struct kobject *kobj,
- struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
-{
- return single_hugepage_flag_show(kobj, attr, buf,
- TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_USE_ZERO_PAGE_FLAG);
-}
-static ssize_t use_zero_page_store(struct kobject *kobj,
- struct kobj_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t count)
-{
- return single_hugepage_flag_store(kobj, attr, buf, count,
- TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_USE_ZERO_PAGE_FLAG);
-}
-static struct kobj_attribute use_zero_page_attr =
- __ATTR(use_zero_page, 0644, use_zero_page_show, use_zero_page_store);
-
static ssize_t hpage_pmd_size_show(struct kobject *kobj,
struct kobj_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
@@ -317,7 +301,6 @@ static ssize_t debug_cow_store(struct kobject *kobj,
static struct attribute *hugepage_attr[] = {
&enabled_attr.attr,
&defrag_attr.attr,
- &use_zero_page_attr.attr,
&hpage_pmd_size_attr.attr,
#if defined(CONFIG_SHMEM) && defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGE_PAGECACHE)
&shmem_enabled_attr.attr,
@@ -677,8 +660,7 @@ int do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
if (unlikely(khugepaged_enter(vma, vma->vm_flags)))
return VM_FAULT_OOM;
if (!(vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE) &&
- !mm_forbids_zeropage(vma->vm_mm) &&
- transparent_hugepage_use_zero_page()) {
+ !mm_forbids_zeropage(vma->vm_mm)) {
pgtable_t pgtable;
struct page *zero_page;
bool set;
--
1.8.3.1
