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authorJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>2018-11-20 13:14:08 +0200
committerJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>2018-11-20 13:14:08 +0200
commit2ac5e38ea4203852d6e99edd3cf11f044b0a409f (patch)
tree1ef02da98d56309368ad2b6a4e492bafe5bb4faf /Documentation/vm
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parent9235dd441af43599b9cdcce599a3da4083fcad3c (diff)
downloadlinux-2ac5e38ea4203852d6e99edd3cf11f044b0a409f.tar.bz2
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next-queued
Pull in v4.20-rc3 via drm-next. Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/00-INDEX50
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/hmm.rst14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/slub.rst12
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 60 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX b/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX
deleted file mode 100644
index f4a4f3e884cf..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-00-INDEX
- - this file.
-active_mm.rst
- - An explanation from Linus about tsk->active_mm vs tsk->mm.
-balance.rst
- - various information on memory balancing.
-cleancache.rst
- - Intro to cleancache and page-granularity victim cache.
-frontswap.rst
- - Outline frontswap, part of the transcendent memory frontend.
-highmem.rst
- - Outline of highmem and common issues.
-hmm.rst
- - Documentation of heterogeneous memory management
-hugetlbfs_reserv.rst
- - A brief overview of hugetlbfs reservation design/implementation.
-hwpoison.rst
- - explains what hwpoison is
-ksm.rst
- - how to use the Kernel Samepage Merging feature.
-mmu_notifier.rst
- - a note about clearing pte/pmd and mmu notifications
-numa.rst
- - information about NUMA specific code in the Linux vm.
-overcommit-accounting.rst
- - description of the Linux kernels overcommit handling modes.
-page_frags.rst
- - description of page fragments allocator
-page_migration.rst
- - description of page migration in NUMA systems.
-page_owner.rst
- - tracking about who allocated each page
-remap_file_pages.rst
- - a note about remap_file_pages() system call
-slub.rst
- - a short users guide for SLUB.
-split_page_table_lock.rst
- - Separate per-table lock to improve scalability of the old page_table_lock.
-swap_numa.rst
- - automatic binding of swap device to numa node
-transhuge.rst
- - Transparent Hugepage Support, alternative way of using hugepages.
-unevictable-lru.rst
- - Unevictable LRU infrastructure
-z3fold.txt
- - outline of z3fold allocator for storing compressed pages
-zsmalloc.rst
- - outline of zsmalloc allocator for storing compressed pages
-zswap.rst
- - Intro to compressed cache for swap pages
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst b/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst
index cdf3911582c8..44205f0b671f 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hmm.rst
@@ -194,13 +194,13 @@ use either::
unsigned long start,
unsigned long end,
hmm_pfn_t *pfns);
- int hmm_vma_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
- struct hmm_range *range,
- unsigned long start,
- unsigned long end,
- hmm_pfn_t *pfns,
- bool write,
- bool block);
+ int hmm_vma_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ struct hmm_range *range,
+ unsigned long start,
+ unsigned long end,
+ hmm_pfn_t *pfns,
+ bool write,
+ bool block);
The first one (hmm_vma_get_pfns()) will only fetch present CPU page table
entries and will not trigger a page fault on missing or non-present entries.
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/slub.rst b/Documentation/vm/slub.rst
index 3a775fd64e2d..195928808bac 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/slub.rst
+++ b/Documentation/vm/slub.rst
@@ -36,9 +36,10 @@ debugging is enabled. Format:
slub_debug=<Debug-Options>
Enable options for all slabs
-slub_debug=<Debug-Options>,<slab name>
- Enable options only for select slabs
+slub_debug=<Debug-Options>,<slab name1>,<slab name2>,...
+ Enable options only for select slabs (no spaces
+ after a comma)
Possible debug options are::
@@ -62,7 +63,12 @@ Trying to find an issue in the dentry cache? Try::
slub_debug=,dentry
-to only enable debugging on the dentry cache.
+to only enable debugging on the dentry cache. You may use an asterisk at the
+end of the slab name, in order to cover all slabs with the same prefix. For
+example, here's how you can poison the dentry cache as well as all kmalloc
+slabs:
+
+ slub_debug=P,kmalloc-*,dentry
Red zoning and tracking may realign the slab. We can just apply sanity checks
to the dentry cache with::