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no_slb_preload cmdline can come useful in quickly disabling and/or testing the performance impact of userspace slb preloads. Recently there was a slb multi-hit issue due to slb preload cache which was very difficult to triage. This cmdline option allows to quickly disable preloads and verify if the issue exists in preload cache or somewhere else. This can also be a useful option to see the effect of slb preloads for any application workload e.g. number of slb faults with or w/o slb preloads. with slb_preload: slb_faults (minimal initrd boot): 15 slb_faults (full systemd boot): 300 with no_slb_preload: slb_faults (minimal initrd boot): 33 slb_faults (full systemd boot): 138180 Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/de484b55c45d831bc2db63945f455153c89a9a65.1761834163.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com