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| author | Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> | 2014-12-12 16:55:52 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-12-13 12:42:48 -0800 |
| commit | 031bc5743f158b2d5498294f489e534a31251626 (patch) | |
| tree | 472c0024f26821a627ec17a2e73a450f450ca4cc /Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | |
| parent | e30825f1869a75b29a69dc8e0aaaaccc492092cf (diff) | |
| download | lwn-031bc5743f158b2d5498294f489e534a31251626.tar.gz lwn-031bc5743f158b2d5498294f489e534a31251626.zip | |
mm/debug-pagealloc: make debug-pagealloc boottime configurable
Now, we have prepared to avoid using debug-pagealloc in boottime. So
introduce new kernel-parameter to disable debug-pagealloc in boottime, and
makes related functions to be disabled in this case.
Only non-intuitive part is change of guard page functions. Because guard
page is effective only if debug-pagealloc is enabled, turning off
according to debug-pagealloc is reasonable thing to do.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Jungsoo Son <jungsoo.son@lge.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 24539d1c7d25..6f067954675b 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -829,6 +829,15 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help tracking down these problems. + debug_pagealloc= + [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this + parameter enables the feature at boot time. In + default, it is disabled. We can avoid allocating huge + chunk of memory for debug pagealloc if we don't enable + it at boot time and the system will work mostly same + with the kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. + on: enable the feature + debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging decnet.addr= [HW,NET] |