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From: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>,
	Timofey Titovets <nefelim4ag@gmail.com>,
	Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC 4/4] mm/ksm: add automerging documentation
Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 09:21:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190510072125.18059-5-oleksandr@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190510072125.18059-1-oleksandr@redhat.com>

Document KSM "always" mode kernel cmdline option as well as
corresponding sysfs knob.

Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +++++++
 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst            | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 2b8ee90bb644..510766a3fa05 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2008,6 +2008,13 @@
 			0: force disabled
 			1: force enabled
 
+	ksm_mode=
+			[KNL]
+			Format: [madvise|always]
+			Default: madvise
+			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
+			with respect to merging anonymous memory.
+
 	kvm.ignore_msrs=[KVM] Ignore guest accesses to unhandled MSRs.
 			Default is 0 (don't ignore, but inject #GP)
 
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst
index 9303786632d1..9af730640da7 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst
@@ -78,6 +78,13 @@ KSM daemon sysfs interface
 The KSM daemon is controlled by sysfs files in ``/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/``,
 readable by all but writable only by root:
 
+mode
+        * set madvise to deduplicate only madvised memory
+        * set always to allow deduplicating all the anonymous memory
+          (applies to newly allocated memory only)
+
+        Default: madvise (maintains old behaviour)
+
 pages_to_scan
         how many pages to scan before ksmd goes to sleep
         e.g. ``echo 100 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_to_scan``.
-- 
2.21.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-10  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-10  7:21 [PATCH RFC 0/4] mm/ksm: add option to automerge VMAs Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-10  7:21 ` [PATCH RFC 1/4] mm/ksm: introduce ksm_enter() helper Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-10  7:21 ` [PATCH RFC 2/4] mm/ksm: introduce VM_UNMERGEABLE Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-10  7:21 ` [PATCH RFC 3/4] mm/ksm: allow anonymous memory automerging Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-10  7:21 ` Oleksandr Natalenko [this message]
2019-05-13 10:38 ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] mm/ksm: add option to automerge VMAs Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-13 11:33   ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-13 11:48     ` Timofey Titovets
2019-05-13 12:01       ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-13 12:06         ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-13 12:37     ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-14  6:30       ` Oleksandr Natalenko
2019-05-14  9:12         ` Kirill Tkhai
2019-05-14 13:33           ` Oleksandr Natalenko

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