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authorHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>2023-07-23 13:55:00 -0700
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-07-27 13:07:03 -0700
commit253e5df8b8f0145adb090f57c6f4e6efa52d738e (patch)
treea1e684c4081ebe2b82bfa1cb7b64be1458ef3850 /Documentation
parentdddfa05eb58076ad60f9a66e7155a5b3502b2dd5 (diff)
tmpfs: fix Documentation of noswap and huge mount options
The noswap mount option is surely not one of the three options for sizing: move its description down. The huge= mount option does not accept numeric values: those are just in an internal enum. Delete those numbers, and follow the manpage text more closely (but there's not yet any fadvise() or fcntl() which applies here). /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled is hard to describe, and barely relevant to mounting a tmpfs: just refer to transhuge.rst (while still using the words deny and force, to help as informal reminders). [rdunlap@infradead.org: fixup Docs table for huge mount options] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230725052333.26857-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/986cb0bf-9780-354-9bb-4bf57aadbab@google.com Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Fixes: d0f5a85442d1 ("shmem: update documentation") Fixes: 2c6efe9cf2d7 ("shmem: add support to ignore swap") Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst47
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst
index f18f46be5c0c..2cd8fa332feb 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst
@@ -84,8 +84,6 @@ nr_inodes The maximum number of inodes for this instance. The default
is half of the number of your physical RAM pages, or (on a
machine with highmem) the number of lowmem RAM pages,
whichever is the lower.
-noswap Disables swap. Remounts must respect the original settings.
- By default swap is enabled.
========= ============================================================
These parameters accept a suffix k, m or g for kilo, mega and giga and
@@ -99,36 +97,31 @@ mount with such options, since it allows any user with write access to
use up all the memory on the machine; but enhances the scalability of
that instance in a system with many CPUs making intensive use of it.
+tmpfs blocks may be swapped out, when there is a shortage of memory.
+tmpfs has a mount option to disable its use of swap:
+
+====== ===========================================================
+noswap Disables swap. Remounts must respect the original settings.
+ By default swap is enabled.
+====== ===========================================================
+
tmpfs also supports Transparent Huge Pages which requires a kernel
configured with CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE and with huge supported for
your system (has_transparent_hugepage(), which is architecture specific).
The mount options for this are:
-====== ============================================================
-huge=0 never: disables huge pages for the mount
-huge=1 always: enables huge pages for the mount
-huge=2 within_size: only allocate huge pages if the page will be
- fully within i_size, also respect fadvise()/madvise() hints.
-huge=3 advise: only allocate huge pages if requested with
- fadvise()/madvise()
-====== ============================================================
-
-There is a sysfs file which you can also use to control system wide THP
-configuration for all tmpfs mounts, the file is:
-
-/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled
-
-This sysfs file is placed on top of THP sysfs directory and so is registered
-by THP code. It is however only used to control all tmpfs mounts with one
-single knob. Since it controls all tmpfs mounts it should only be used either
-for emergency or testing purposes. The values you can set for shmem_enabled are:
-
-== ============================================================
--1 deny: disables huge on shm_mnt and all mounts, for
- emergency use
--2 force: enables huge on shm_mnt and all mounts, w/o needing
- option, for testing
-== ============================================================
+================ ==============================================================
+huge=never Do not allocate huge pages. This is the default.
+huge=always Attempt to allocate huge page every time a new page is needed.
+huge=within_size Only allocate huge page if it will be fully within i_size.
+ Also respect madvise(2) hints.
+huge=advise Only allocate huge page if requested with madvise(2).
+================ ==============================================================
+
+See also Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst, which describes the
+sysfs file /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled: which can
+be used to deny huge pages on all tmpfs mounts in an emergency, or to
+force huge pages on all tmpfs mounts for testing.
tmpfs has a mount option to set the NUMA memory allocation policy for
all files in that instance (if CONFIG_NUMA is enabled) - which can be