On Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:55:30 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Rather confusingly, setting all Transparent Huge Page sysfs settings to > "never" does not in fact result in THP being globally disabled. > > Rather, it results in khugepaged being disabled, but one can still obtain > THP pages using madvise(..., MADV_COLLAPSE). > > This is something that has remained poorly documented for some time, and it > is likely the received wisdom of most users of THP that never does, in > fact, mean never. > > It is therefore important to highlight, very clearly, that this is not the > ase. case? > > Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks, SJ [...]
