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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-09-24 16:10:23 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-09-24 16:10:23 -0700 |
commit | 9c9fa97a8edbc3668dfc7a25de516e80c146e86f (patch) | |
tree | 2dc0e90203796a4b346ce190f9521c3294104058 /Documentation/ABI/testing | |
parent | 5184d449600f501a8688069f35c138c6b3bf8b94 (diff) | |
parent | 2b38d01b4de8b1bbda7f5f7e91252609557635fc (diff) | |
download | linux-9c9fa97a8edbc3668dfc7a25de516e80c146e86f.tar.bz2 |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few hot fixes
- ocfs2 updates
- almost all of -mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, kmemleak, kasan,
cleanups, debug, pagecache, memcg, gup, pagemap, memory-hotplug,
sparsemem, vmalloc, initialization, z3fold, compaction, mempolicy,
oom-kill, hugetlb, migration, thp, mmap, madvise, shmem, zswap,
zsmalloc)
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (132 commits)
mm/zsmalloc.c: fix a -Wunused-function warning
zswap: do not map same object twice
zswap: use movable memory if zpool support allocate movable memory
zpool: add malloc_support_movable to zpool_driver
shmem: fix obsolete comment in shmem_getpage_gfp()
mm/madvise: reduce code duplication in error handling paths
mm: mmap: increase sockets maximum memory size pgoff for 32bits
mm/mmap.c: refine find_vma_prev() with rb_last()
riscv: make mmap allocation top-down by default
mips: use generic mmap top-down layout and brk randomization
mips: replace arch specific way to determine 32bit task with generic version
mips: adjust brk randomization offset to fit generic version
mips: use STACK_TOP when computing mmap base address
mips: properly account for stack randomization and stack guard gap
arm: use generic mmap top-down layout and brk randomization
arm: use STACK_TOP when computing mmap base address
arm: properly account for stack randomization and stack guard gap
arm64, mm: make randomization selected by generic topdown mmap layout
arm64, mm: move generic mmap layout functions to mm
arm64: consider stack randomization for mmap base only when necessary
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab index 29601d93a1c2..ed35833ad7f0 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab @@ -429,10 +429,15 @@ KernelVersion: 2.6.22 Contact: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Description: - The shrink file is written when memory should be reclaimed from - a cache. Empty partial slabs are freed and the partial list is - sorted so the slabs with the fewest available objects are used - first. + The shrink file is used to reclaim unused slab cache + memory from a cache. Empty per-cpu or partial slabs + are freed and the partial list is sorted so the slabs + with the fewest available objects are used first. + It only accepts a value of "1" on write for shrinking + the cache. Other input values are considered invalid. + Shrinking slab caches might be expensive and can + adversely impact other running applications. So it + should be used with care. What: /sys/kernel/slab/cache/slab_size Date: May 2007 |