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author | Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2018-04-18 11:07:49 +0300 |
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committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2018-04-27 17:02:48 -0600 |
commit | 1ad1335dc58646764eda7bb054b350934a1b23ec (patch) | |
tree | 8c145819f0d380744d432512ea47d89c8b91a22c /Documentation | |
parent | 3a3f7e26e5544032a687fb05b5221883b97a59ae (diff) | |
download | linux-1ad1335dc58646764eda7bb054b350934a1b23ec.tar.bz2 |
docs/admin-guide/mm: start moving here files from Documentation/vm
Several documents in Documentation/vm fit quite well into the "admin/user
guide" category. The documents that don't overload the reader with lots of
implementation details and provide coherent description of certain feature
can be moved to Documentation/admin-guide/mm.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst (renamed from Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst) | 0 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst (renamed from Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.rst) | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst | 9 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst (renamed from Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst) | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst (renamed from Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.rst) | 0 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst (renamed from Documentation/vm/userfaultfd.rst) | 0 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/00-INDEX | 10 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/index.rst | 5 |
13 files changed, 22 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node index b38f4b734567..3e90e1f3bf0a 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node @@ -90,4 +90,4 @@ Date: December 2009 Contact: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Description: The node's huge page size control/query attributes. - See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst
\ No newline at end of file + See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages index 5140b233356c..fdaa2162fae1 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages @@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ Description: free_hugepages surplus_hugepages resv_hugepages - See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst for details. + See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst for details. diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst index 2b374d10284d..2b374d10284d 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst diff --git a/Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst index d1c4609a5220..92e3a25d2deb 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ workload one should: are not reclaimable, he or she can filter them out using ``/proc/kpageflags``. -See Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst for more information about +See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst for more information about ``/proc/pid/pagemap``, ``/proc/kpageflags``, and ``/proc/kpagecgroup``. .. _impl_details: diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst index c47c16e13a18..6c8b554464bb 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst @@ -17,3 +17,12 @@ are described in Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt and in `man 5 proc`_. Here we document in detail how to interact with various mechanisms in the Linux memory management. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + hugetlbpage + idle_page_tracking + pagemap + soft-dirty + userfaultfd diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst index 7ba8cbd57ad3..053ca64fd47a 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ There are four components to pagemap: * Bits 0-54 page frame number (PFN) if present * Bits 0-4 swap type if swapped * Bits 5-54 swap offset if swapped - * Bit 55 pte is soft-dirty (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.rst) + * Bit 55 pte is soft-dirty (see Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst) * Bit 56 page exclusively mapped (since 4.2) * Bits 57-60 zero * Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon (since 3.5) @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags A compound page with order N consists of 2^N physically contiguous pages. A compound page with order 2 takes the form of "HTTT", where H donates its head page and T donates its tail page(s). The major consumers of compound - pages are hugeTLB pages (Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst), the SLUB etc. + pages are hugeTLB pages (Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst), the SLUB etc. memory allocators and various device drivers. However in this interface, only huge/giga pages are made visible to end users. 16 - COMPOUND_TAIL @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags zero page for pfn_zero or huge_zero page 25 - IDLE page has not been accessed since it was marked idle (see - Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.rst). Note that this flag may be + Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst). Note that this flag may be stale in case the page was accessed via a PTE. To make sure the flag is up-to-date one has to read ``/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap`` first. diff --git a/Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst index cb0cfd6672fa..cb0cfd6672fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst diff --git a/Documentation/vm/userfaultfd.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst index 5048cf661a8a..5048cf661a8a 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/userfaultfd.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 2d3984c70feb..ef53f808288d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -515,7 +515,8 @@ guarantees: The /proc/PID/clear_refs is used to reset the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG bits on both physical and virtual pages associated with a process, and the -soft-dirty bit on pte (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.rst for details). +soft-dirty bit on pte (see Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst +for details). To clear the bits for all the pages associated with the process > echo 1 > /proc/PID/clear_refs @@ -536,7 +537,8 @@ Any other value written to /proc/PID/clear_refs will have no effect. The /proc/pid/pagemap gives the PFN, which can be used to find the pageflags using /proc/kpageflags and number of times a page is mapped using -/proc/kpagecount. For detailed explanation, see Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst. +/proc/kpagecount. For detailed explanation, see +Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst. The /proc/pid/numa_maps is an extension based on maps, showing the memory locality and binding policy, as well as the memory usage (in pages) of diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index c8e6d5b031e4..697ef8c225df 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ nr_hugepages Change the minimum size of the hugepage pool. -See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst +See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst ============================================================== @@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ nr_overcommit_hugepages Change the maximum size of the hugepage pool. The maximum is nr_hugepages + nr_overcommit_hugepages. -See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst +See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst ============================================================== diff --git a/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX b/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX index cda564d55b3c..f8a96ca16b7a 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX @@ -12,14 +12,10 @@ highmem.rst - Outline of highmem and common issues. hmm.rst - Documentation of heterogeneous memory management -hugetlbpage.rst - - a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in the Linux kernel. hugetlbfs_reserv.rst - A brief overview of hugetlbfs reservation design/implementation. hwpoison.rst - explains what hwpoison is -idle_page_tracking.rst - - description of the idle page tracking feature. ksm.rst - how to use the Kernel Samepage Merging feature. mmu_notifier.rst @@ -34,16 +30,12 @@ page_frags.rst - description of page fragments allocator page_migration.rst - description of page migration in NUMA systems. -pagemap.rst - - pagemap, from the userspace perspective 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. -soft-dirty.rst - - short explanation for soft-dirty PTEs split_page_table_lock.rst - Separate per-table lock to improve scalability of the old page_table_lock. swap_numa.rst @@ -52,8 +44,6 @@ transhuge.rst - Transparent Hugepage Support, alternative way of using hugepages. unevictable-lru.rst - Unevictable LRU infrastructure -userfaultfd.rst - - description of userfaultfd system call z3fold.txt - outline of z3fold allocator for storing compressed pages zsmalloc.rst diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst index 070aa1e716b7..09bd24a92784 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Testing value). This allows stress testing of many kinds of pages. The page_flags are the same as in /proc/kpageflags. The flag bits are defined in include/linux/kernel-page-flags.h and - documented in Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst + documented in Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst * Architecture specific MCE injector diff --git a/Documentation/vm/index.rst b/Documentation/vm/index.rst index 6c451421a01e..ed58cb9f9675 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/index.rst @@ -13,15 +13,10 @@ various features of the Linux memory management .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 - hugetlbpage - idle_page_tracking ksm numa_memory_policy - pagemap transhuge - soft-dirty swap_numa - userfaultfd zswap Kernel developers MM documentation |