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To support the use of mTHP with anonymous shmem, add a new sysfs interface
'shmem_enabled' in the '/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-kB/'
directory for each mTHP to control whether shmem is enabled for that mTHP,
with a value similar to the top level 'shmem_enabled', which can be set
to: "always", "inherit (to inherit the top level setting)", "within_size",
"advise", "never".  An 'inherit' option is added to ensure compatibility
with these global settings, and the options 'force' and 'deny' are
dropped, which are rather testing artifacts from the old ages.

By default, PMD-sized hugepages have enabled="inherit" and all other
hugepage sizes have enabled="never" for
'/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hugepages-xxkB/shmem_enabled'.

In addition, if top level value is 'force', then only PMD-sized hugepages
have enabled="inherit", otherwise configuration will be failed and vice
versa.  That means now we will avoid using non-PMD sized THP to override
the global huge allocation.

[baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com: fix transhuge.rst indentation]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b189d815-998b-4dfd-ba89-218ff51313f8@linux.alibaba.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: reflow transhuge.rst addition to 80 cols]
[baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com: move huge_shmem_orders_lock under CONFIG_SYSFS]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/eb34da66-7f12-44f3-a39e-2bcc90c33354@linux.alibaba.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: huge_memory.c needs mm_types.h]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ffddfa8b3cb4266ff963099ab78cfd7184c57ac7.1718090413.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com

Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Cc: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Pankaj Raghav <p.raghav@samsung.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>