thp: select CONFIG_COMPACTION if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE enabled
With transparent hugepage support we need compaction for the "defrag" sysfs controls to be effective. At the moment THP hangs the system if COMPACTION isn't selected, as without COMPACTION lumpy reclaim wouldn't be entirely disabled. So at the moment it's not orthogonal. When lumpy will be removed from the VM I can remove the select COMPACTION in theory, but then 99% of THP users would be still doing a mistake in disabling compaction, even if the mistake won't return in fatal runtime but just slightly degraded performance. So from a theoretical standpoing forcing the below select is not needed (the dependency isn't strict nor at compile time nor at runtime) but from a practical standpoint it is safer. If anybody really wants THP to run without compaction, it'd be such a weird setup that editing the Kconfig file to allow it will be surely not a problem. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
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config TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
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bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
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bool "Transparent Hugepage Support"
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depends on X86 && MMU
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depends on X86 && MMU
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select COMPACTION
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help
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help
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Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
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Transparent Hugepages allows the kernel to use huge pages and
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huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
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huge tlb transparently to the applications whenever possible.
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