* [PATCH v3] mm/hugetlb_cma: support percentage-based hugetlb_cma reservation
@ 2026-07-29 16:31 Sourav Panda
2026-07-30 12:49 ` Usama Arif
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Sourav Panda @ 2026-07-29 16:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: muchun.song, osalvador, akpm
Cc: david, usama.arif, surenb, fvdl, gthelen, rientjes, souravpanda,
linux-mm, linux-kernel
Currently, hugetlb_cma reservation only supports absolute sizes (e.g.,
hugetlb_cma=2G or hugetlb_cma=0:1G,1:1G). This can be restrictive in
heterogeneous environments or when deploying common kernel command lines
across machines with different memory capacities.
Add support for percentage-based hugetlb_cma reservation (e.g.,
hugetlb_cma=20% or hugetlb_cma=0:20%,1:10%).
The percentage is calculated against the total memory (for global
settings) or against the node-specific memory (for node-specific
settings) using memblock APIs during early boot.
Signed-off-by: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com>
---
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260628190155.3655895-1-souravpanda@google.com/ [v2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260625215900.2151690-1-souravpanda@google.com/ [v1]
v3:
- Enhance pr_info logs to explicitly show percentage-derived sizes per Andrew Morton's suggestions.
- Explicitly align percentage-derived sizes down to the gigantic page size to prevent allocation failures (Usama Arif).
.../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +-
mm/hugetlb_cma.c | 126 ++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 5a05b48d1684..846940ce2858 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2064,8 +2064,11 @@ Kernel parameters
hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
of a CMA area per node can be specified.
- Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
- <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
+ The size can be an absolute value (e.g., 2G) or a
+ percentage of the total memory or node memory (e.g., 20%).
+ Format: nn[KMGTPE] or nn% or (node format)
+ <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] or
+ <node>:nn%[,<node>:nn%]
Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_cma.c b/mm/hugetlb_cma.c
index 7693ccefd0c6..99d05eb82abc 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_cma.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_cma.c
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
#include <asm/setup.h>
#include <linux/hugetlb.h>
+#include <linux/memblock.h>
+#include <linux/math.h>
+#include <linux/math64.h>
#include "internal.h"
#include "hugetlb_cma.h"
@@ -18,6 +21,28 @@ static unsigned long hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[MAX_NUMNODES] __initdata;
static bool hugetlb_cma_only __ro_after_init;
static unsigned long hugetlb_cma_size __ro_after_init;
+static unsigned int hugetlb_cma_percent __initdata;
+static unsigned int hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[MAX_NUMNODES] __initdata;
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
+static phys_addr_t __init memblock_node_memory_size(int nid)
+{
+ struct memblock_region *reg;
+ phys_addr_t size = 0;
+
+ for_each_mem_region(reg) {
+ if (reg->nid == nid)
+ size += reg->size;
+ }
+ return size;
+}
+#else
+static phys_addr_t __init memblock_node_memory_size(int nid)
+{
+ return memblock_phys_mem_size();
+}
+#endif
+
void hugetlb_cma_free_frozen_folio(struct folio *folio)
{
WARN_ON_ONCE(!cma_release_frozen(hugetlb_cma[folio_nid(folio)],
@@ -100,14 +125,28 @@ static int __init cmdline_parse_hugetlb_cma(char *p)
break;
if (s[count] == ':') {
+ char *next;
+
if (tmp >= MAX_NUMNODES)
break;
nid = array_index_nospec(tmp, MAX_NUMNODES);
s += count + 1;
- tmp = memparse(s, &s);
- hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid] = tmp;
- hugetlb_cma_size += tmp;
+ tmp = memparse(s, &next);
+ if (*next == '%') {
+ if (tmp > 100) {
+ pr_warn("hugetlb_cma: invalid percentage %lu for node %d\n",
+ tmp, nid);
+ break;
+ }
+ hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[nid] = tmp;
+ hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid] = 0;
+ s = next + 1;
+ } else {
+ hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid] = tmp;
+ hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[nid] = 0;
+ s = next;
+ }
/*
* Skip the separator if have one, otherwise
@@ -118,7 +157,28 @@ static int __init cmdline_parse_hugetlb_cma(char *p)
else
break;
} else {
- hugetlb_cma_size = memparse(p, &p);
+ char *next;
+
+ tmp = memparse(p, &next);
+ if (*next == '%') {
+ if (tmp > 100) {
+ pr_warn("hugetlb_cma: invalid percentage %lu\n", tmp);
+ } else {
+ hugetlb_cma_percent = tmp;
+ hugetlb_cma_size = 0;
+ for (nid = 0; nid < MAX_NUMNODES; nid++) {
+ hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid] = 0;
+ hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[nid] = 0;
+ }
+ }
+ } else {
+ hugetlb_cma_size = tmp;
+ hugetlb_cma_percent = 0;
+ for (nid = 0; nid < MAX_NUMNODES; nid++) {
+ hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid] = 0;
+ hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[nid] = 0;
+ }
+ }
break;
}
}
@@ -144,8 +204,36 @@ void __init hugetlb_cma_reserve(void)
{
unsigned long size, reserved, per_node, order;
bool node_specific_cma_alloc = false;
+ bool has_node_specific_param = false;
int nid;
+ for (nid = 0; nid < MAX_NUMNODES; nid++) {
+ if (hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid] || hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[nid]) {
+ has_node_specific_param = true;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (has_node_specific_param) {
+ hugetlb_cma_size = 0;
+ for (nid = 0; nid < MAX_NUMNODES; nid++) {
+ if (hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[nid]) {
+ phys_addr_t node_gfp_mem = memblock_node_memory_size(nid);
+ u64 s;
+
+ s = mul_u64_u32_div((u64)node_gfp_mem,
+ hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[nid],
+ 100);
+
+ hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid] = s;
+ }
+ hugetlb_cma_size += hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid];
+ }
+ } else if (hugetlb_cma_percent) {
+ hugetlb_cma_size = mul_u64_u32_div((u64)memblock_phys_mem_size(),
+ hugetlb_cma_percent, 100);
+ }
+
if (!hugetlb_cma_size)
return;
@@ -163,6 +251,20 @@ void __init hugetlb_cma_reserve(void)
*/
VM_WARN_ON(order <= MAX_PAGE_ORDER);
+ if (hugetlb_cma_percent) {
+ hugetlb_cma_size = ALIGN_DOWN(hugetlb_cma_size, PAGE_SIZE << order);
+ } else if (has_node_specific_param) {
+ hugetlb_cma_size = 0;
+ for (nid = 0; nid < MAX_NUMNODES; nid++) {
+ if (hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[nid]) {
+ hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid] =
+ ALIGN_DOWN(hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid],
+ PAGE_SIZE << order);
+ }
+ hugetlb_cma_size += hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid];
+ }
+ }
+
hugetlb_bootmem_set_nodes();
for (nid = 0; nid < MAX_NUMNODES; nid++) {
@@ -205,8 +307,12 @@ void __init hugetlb_cma_reserve(void)
per_node = DIV_ROUND_UP(hugetlb_cma_size,
nodes_weight(hugetlb_bootmem_nodes));
per_node = round_up(per_node, PAGE_SIZE << order);
- pr_info("hugetlb_cma: reserve %lu MiB, up to %lu MiB per node\n",
- hugetlb_cma_size / SZ_1M, per_node / SZ_1M);
+ if (hugetlb_cma_percent)
+ pr_info("hugetlb_cma: reserve %lu MiB (%u%%), up to %lu MiB per node\n",
+ hugetlb_cma_size / SZ_1M, hugetlb_cma_percent, per_node / SZ_1M);
+ else
+ pr_info("hugetlb_cma: reserve %lu MiB, up to %lu MiB per node\n",
+ hugetlb_cma_size / SZ_1M, per_node / SZ_1M);
}
reserved = 0;
@@ -241,8 +347,12 @@ void __init hugetlb_cma_reserve(void)
}
reserved += size;
- pr_info("hugetlb_cma: reserved %lu MiB on node %d\n",
- size / SZ_1M, nid);
+ if (hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[nid])
+ pr_info("hugetlb_cma: reserved %lu MiB (%u%%) on node %d\n",
+ size / SZ_1M, hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[nid], nid);
+ else
+ pr_info("hugetlb_cma: reserved %lu MiB on node %d\n",
+ size / SZ_1M, nid);
if (reserved >= hugetlb_cma_size)
break;
--
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* Re: [PATCH v3] mm/hugetlb_cma: support percentage-based hugetlb_cma reservation
2026-07-29 16:31 [PATCH v3] mm/hugetlb_cma: support percentage-based hugetlb_cma reservation Sourav Panda
@ 2026-07-30 12:49 ` Usama Arif
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Usama Arif @ 2026-07-30 12:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sourav Panda
Cc: Usama Arif, muchun.song, osalvador, akpm, david, surenb, fvdl,
gthelen, rientjes, linux-mm, linux-kernel
On Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:31:48 +0000 Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com> wrote:
> Currently, hugetlb_cma reservation only supports absolute sizes (e.g.,
> hugetlb_cma=2G or hugetlb_cma=0:1G,1:1G). This can be restrictive in
> heterogeneous environments or when deploying common kernel command lines
> across machines with different memory capacities.
>
> Add support for percentage-based hugetlb_cma reservation (e.g.,
> hugetlb_cma=20% or hugetlb_cma=0:20%,1:10%).
>
> The percentage is calculated against the total memory (for global
> settings) or against the node-specific memory (for node-specific
> settings) using memblock APIs during early boot.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sourav Panda <souravpanda@google.com>
> ---
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260628190155.3655895-1-souravpanda@google.com/ [v2]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20260625215900.2151690-1-souravpanda@google.com/ [v1]
>
> v3:
> - Enhance pr_info logs to explicitly show percentage-derived sizes per Andrew Morton's suggestions.
> - Explicitly align percentage-derived sizes down to the gigantic page size to prevent allocation failures (Usama Arif).
>
> .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 +-
> mm/hugetlb_cma.c | 126 ++++++++++++++++--
> 2 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> index 5a05b48d1684..846940ce2858 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -2064,8 +2064,11 @@ Kernel parameters
> hugetlb_cma= [HW,CMA,EARLY] The size of a CMA area used for allocation
> of gigantic hugepages. Or using node format, the size
> of a CMA area per node can be specified.
> - Format: nn[KMGTPE] or (node format)
> - <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]]
> + The size can be an absolute value (e.g., 2G) or a
> + percentage of the total memory or node memory (e.g., 20%).
> + Format: nn[KMGTPE] or nn% or (node format)
> + <node>:nn[KMGTPE][,<node>:nn[KMGTPE]] or
> + <node>:nn%[,<node>:nn%]
>
> Reserve a CMA area of given size and allocate gigantic
> hugepages using the CMA allocator. If enabled, the
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_cma.c b/mm/hugetlb_cma.c
> index 7693ccefd0c6..99d05eb82abc 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb_cma.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb_cma.c
> @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
> #include <asm/setup.h>
>
> #include <linux/hugetlb.h>
> +#include <linux/memblock.h>
> +#include <linux/math.h>
> +#include <linux/math64.h>
> #include "internal.h"
> #include "hugetlb_cma.h"
>
> @@ -18,6 +21,28 @@ static unsigned long hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[MAX_NUMNODES] __initdata;
> static bool hugetlb_cma_only __ro_after_init;
> static unsigned long hugetlb_cma_size __ro_after_init;
>
> +static unsigned int hugetlb_cma_percent __initdata;
> +static unsigned int hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[MAX_NUMNODES] __initdata;
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> +static phys_addr_t __init memblock_node_memory_size(int nid)
> +{
> + struct memblock_region *reg;
> + phys_addr_t size = 0;
> +
> + for_each_mem_region(reg) {
> + if (reg->nid == nid)
> + size += reg->size;
> + }
> + return size;
> +}
> +#else
> +static phys_addr_t __init memblock_node_memory_size(int nid)
> +{
> + return memblock_phys_mem_size();
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> void hugetlb_cma_free_frozen_folio(struct folio *folio)
> {
> WARN_ON_ONCE(!cma_release_frozen(hugetlb_cma[folio_nid(folio)],
> @@ -100,14 +125,28 @@ static int __init cmdline_parse_hugetlb_cma(char *p)
> break;
>
> if (s[count] == ':') {
> + char *next;
> +
> if (tmp >= MAX_NUMNODES)
> break;
> nid = array_index_nospec(tmp, MAX_NUMNODES);
>
> s += count + 1;
> - tmp = memparse(s, &s);
> - hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid] = tmp;
> - hugetlb_cma_size += tmp;
> + tmp = memparse(s, &next);
> + if (*next == '%') {
> + if (tmp > 100) {
> + pr_warn("hugetlb_cma: invalid percentage %lu for node %d\n",
> + tmp, nid);
> + break;
> + }
> + hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[nid] = tmp;
> + hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid] = 0;
> + s = next + 1;
> + } else {
> + hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid] = tmp;
> + hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[nid] = 0;
> + s = next;
> + }
>
> /*
> * Skip the separator if have one, otherwise
> @@ -118,7 +157,28 @@ static int __init cmdline_parse_hugetlb_cma(char *p)
> else
> break;
> } else {
> - hugetlb_cma_size = memparse(p, &p);
> + char *next;
> +
> + tmp = memparse(p, &next);
> + if (*next == '%') {
> + if (tmp > 100) {
> + pr_warn("hugetlb_cma: invalid percentage %lu\n", tmp);
> + } else {
> + hugetlb_cma_percent = tmp;
> + hugetlb_cma_size = 0;
> + for (nid = 0; nid < MAX_NUMNODES; nid++) {
> + hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid] = 0;
> + hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[nid] = 0;
> + }
> + }
> + } else {
> + hugetlb_cma_size = tmp;
> + hugetlb_cma_percent = 0;
> + for (nid = 0; nid < MAX_NUMNODES; nid++) {
> + hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid] = 0;
> + hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[nid] = 0;
> + }
> + }
> break;
> }
> }
> @@ -144,8 +204,36 @@ void __init hugetlb_cma_reserve(void)
> {
> unsigned long size, reserved, per_node, order;
> bool node_specific_cma_alloc = false;
> + bool has_node_specific_param = false;
> int nid;
>
> + for (nid = 0; nid < MAX_NUMNODES; nid++) {
> + if (hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid] || hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[nid]) {
> + has_node_specific_param = true;
> + break;
> + }
> + }
> +
> + if (has_node_specific_param) {
> + hugetlb_cma_size = 0;
> + for (nid = 0; nid < MAX_NUMNODES; nid++) {
> + if (hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[nid]) {
> + phys_addr_t node_gfp_mem = memblock_node_memory_size(nid);
> + u64 s;
> +
> + s = mul_u64_u32_div((u64)node_gfp_mem,
> + hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[nid],
> + 100);
> +
> + hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid] = s;
> + }
> + hugetlb_cma_size += hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid];
> + }
> + } else if (hugetlb_cma_percent) {
> + hugetlb_cma_size = mul_u64_u32_div((u64)memblock_phys_mem_size(),
> + hugetlb_cma_percent, 100);
> + }
> +
> if (!hugetlb_cma_size)
> return;
>
> @@ -163,6 +251,20 @@ void __init hugetlb_cma_reserve(void)
> */
> VM_WARN_ON(order <= MAX_PAGE_ORDER);
>
> + if (hugetlb_cma_percent) {
> + hugetlb_cma_size = ALIGN_DOWN(hugetlb_cma_size, PAGE_SIZE << order);
> + } else if (has_node_specific_param) {
Hello,
What will be done here if you have the following in kernel commandline?
hugetlb_cma=20% hugetlb_cma=0:20%,1:20%
It looks like the later node form doesn't clear hugetlb_cma_percent,
so node specific sizes will be ignored, which I think is not the right
behaviour.
> + hugetlb_cma_size = 0;
> + for (nid = 0; nid < MAX_NUMNODES; nid++) {
> + if (hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[nid]) {
> + hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid] =
> + ALIGN_DOWN(hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid],
> + PAGE_SIZE << order);
Maybe print a warning here if you round down to 0?
For example, 5% of a 16G machine will round down to 0.
> + }
> + hugetlb_cma_size += hugetlb_cma_size_in_node[nid];
> + }
> + }
> +
> hugetlb_bootmem_set_nodes();
>
> for (nid = 0; nid < MAX_NUMNODES; nid++) {
> @@ -205,8 +307,12 @@ void __init hugetlb_cma_reserve(void)
> per_node = DIV_ROUND_UP(hugetlb_cma_size,
> nodes_weight(hugetlb_bootmem_nodes));
> per_node = round_up(per_node, PAGE_SIZE << order);
> - pr_info("hugetlb_cma: reserve %lu MiB, up to %lu MiB per node\n",
> - hugetlb_cma_size / SZ_1M, per_node / SZ_1M);
> + if (hugetlb_cma_percent)
> + pr_info("hugetlb_cma: reserve %lu MiB (%u%%), up to %lu MiB per node\n",
> + hugetlb_cma_size / SZ_1M, hugetlb_cma_percent, per_node / SZ_1M);
> + else
> + pr_info("hugetlb_cma: reserve %lu MiB, up to %lu MiB per node\n",
> + hugetlb_cma_size / SZ_1M, per_node / SZ_1M);
> }
>
> reserved = 0;
> @@ -241,8 +347,12 @@ void __init hugetlb_cma_reserve(void)
> }
>
> reserved += size;
> - pr_info("hugetlb_cma: reserved %lu MiB on node %d\n",
> - size / SZ_1M, nid);
> + if (hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[nid])
> + pr_info("hugetlb_cma: reserved %lu MiB (%u%%) on node %d\n",
> + size / SZ_1M, hugetlb_cma_percent_in_node[nid], nid);
> + else
> + pr_info("hugetlb_cma: reserved %lu MiB on node %d\n",
> + size / SZ_1M, nid);
>
> if (reserved >= hugetlb_cma_size)
> break;
> --
> 2.55.0.rc0.799.gd6f94ed593-goog
>
>
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