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hugetlb: Add hugetlb_dynamic_pool sysctl
authorAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:26:20 +0000 (01:26 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:43:02 +0000 (09:43 -0700)
commit54f9f80d6543fb7b157d3b11e2e7911dc1379790
tree70d34e45f4d1694609db25da0ccad90b4b0ad473
parente4e574b767ba63101cfda2b42d72f38546319297
hugetlb: Add hugetlb_dynamic_pool sysctl

The maximum size of the huge page pool can be controlled using the overall
size of the hugetlb filesystem (via its 'size' mount option).  However in the
common case the this will not be set as the pool is traditionally fixed in
size at boot time.  In order to maintain the expected semantics, we need to
prevent the pool expanding by default.

This patch introduces a new sysctl controlling dynamic pool resizing.  When
this is enabled the pool will expand beyond its base size up to the size of
the hugetlb filesystem.  It is disabled by default.

Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Acked-by: Dave McCracken <dave.mccracken@oracle.com>
Cc: William Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/hugetlb.h
kernel/sysctl.c
mm/hugetlb.c