malloc: Add madvise support for Transparent Huge Pages

Linux Transparent Huge Pages (THP) current supports three different
states: 'never', 'madvise', and 'always'.  The 'never' is
self-explanatory and 'always' will enable THP for all anonymous
pages.  However, 'madvise' is still the default for some system and
for such case THP will be only used if the memory range is explicity
advertise by the program through a madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) call.

To enable it a new tunable is provided, 'glibc.malloc.hugetlb',
where setting to a value diffent than 0 enables the madvise call.

This patch issues the madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) call after a successful
mmap() call at sysmalloc() with sizes larger than the default huge
page size.  The madvise() call is disable is system does not support
THP or if it has the mode set to "never" and on Linux only support
one page size for THP, even if the architecture supports multiple
sizes.

To test is a new rule is added tests-malloc-hugetlb1, which run the
addes tests with the required GLIBC_TUNABLE setting.

Checked on x86_64-linux-gnu.

Reviewed-by: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/manual/tunables.texi b/manual/tunables.texi
index 28ff502990..9ca6e3f603 100644
--- a/manual/tunables.texi
+++ b/manual/tunables.texi
@@ -270,6 +270,16 @@ pointer, so add 4 on 32-bit systems or 8 on 64-bit systems to the size
 passed to @code{malloc} for the largest bin size to enable.
 @end deftp
 
+@deftp Tunable glibc.malloc.hugetlb
+This tunable controls the usage of Huge Pages on @code{malloc} calls.  The
+default value is @code{0}, which disables any additional support on
+@code{malloc}.
+
+Setting its value to @code{1} enables the use of @code{madvise} with
+@code{MADV_HUGEPAGE} after memory allocation with @code{mmap}.  It is enabled
+only if the system supports Transparent Huge Page (currently only on Linux).
+@end deftp
+
 @node Dynamic Linking Tunables
 @section Dynamic Linking Tunables
 @cindex dynamic linking tunables