From: Qi Zheng On a 64-bit system, madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) may cause a large number of empty PTE page table pages (such as 100GB+). To resolve this problem, first enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE to prepare for enabling the PT_RECLAIM feature, which resolves this problem. Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Cc: Richard Weinberger Cc: Anton Ivanov Cc: Johannes Berg --- arch/um/Kconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/arch/um/Kconfig b/arch/um/Kconfig index 097c6a6265ef3..47a41bc77bb24 100644 --- a/arch/um/Kconfig +++ b/arch/um/Kconfig @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ config UML select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS select THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK select SPARSE_IRQ + select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE config MMU bool -- 2.20.1