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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst | 52 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/numa.rst | 2 |
2 files changed, 27 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst index 09bd24a92784..a5c884293dac 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst @@ -13,32 +13,32 @@ kill the processes associated with it and avoid using it in the future. This patchkit implements the necessary infrastructure in the VM. -To quote the overview comment: - - * High level machine check handler. Handles pages reported by the - * hardware as being corrupted usually due to a 2bit ECC memory or cache - * failure. - * - * This focusses on pages detected as corrupted in the background. - * When the current CPU tries to consume corruption the currently - * running process can just be killed directly instead. This implies - * that if the error cannot be handled for some reason it's safe to - * just ignore it because no corruption has been consumed yet. Instead - * when that happens another machine check will happen. - * - * Handles page cache pages in various states. The tricky part - * here is that we can access any page asynchronous to other VM - * users, because memory failures could happen anytime and anywhere, - * possibly violating some of their assumptions. This is why this code - * has to be extremely careful. Generally it tries to use normal locking - * rules, as in get the standard locks, even if that means the - * error handling takes potentially a long time. - * - * Some of the operations here are somewhat inefficient and have non - * linear algorithmic complexity, because the data structures have not - * been optimized for this case. This is in particular the case - * for the mapping from a vma to a process. Since this case is expected - * to be rare we hope we can get away with this. +To quote the overview comment:: + + High level machine check handler. Handles pages reported by the + hardware as being corrupted usually due to a 2bit ECC memory or cache + failure. + + This focusses on pages detected as corrupted in the background. + When the current CPU tries to consume corruption the currently + running process can just be killed directly instead. This implies + that if the error cannot be handled for some reason it's safe to + just ignore it because no corruption has been consumed yet. Instead + when that happens another machine check will happen. + + Handles page cache pages in various states. The tricky part + here is that we can access any page asynchronous to other VM + users, because memory failures could happen anytime and anywhere, + possibly violating some of their assumptions. This is why this code + has to be extremely careful. Generally it tries to use normal locking + rules, as in get the standard locks, even if that means the + error handling takes potentially a long time. + + Some of the operations here are somewhat inefficient and have non + linear algorithmic complexity, because the data structures have not + been optimized for this case. This is in particular the case + for the mapping from a vma to a process. Since this case is expected + to be rare we hope we can get away with this. The code consists of a the high level handler in mm/memory-failure.c, a new page poison bit and various checks in the VM to handle poisoned diff --git a/Documentation/vm/numa.rst b/Documentation/vm/numa.rst index 0d830edae8fe..130f3cfa1c19 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/numa.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/numa.rst @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ Local allocation will tend to keep subsequent access to the allocated memory as long as the task on whose behalf the kernel allocated some memory does not later migrate away from that memory. The Linux scheduler is aware of the NUMA topology of the platform--embodied in the "scheduling domains" data -structures [see Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.txt]--and the scheduler +structures [see Documentation/scheduler/sched-domains.rst]--and the scheduler attempts to minimize task migration to distant scheduling domains. However, the scheduler does not take a task's NUMA footprint into account directly. Thus, under sufficient imbalance, tasks can migrate between nodes, remote |