linux-toradex.git/mm/util.c, branch v4.20

kvfree(): fix misleading comment

2018-10-26T23:26:33+00:00

vfree() might sleep if called not in interrupt context.  So does kvfree()
too.  Fix misleading kvfree()'s comment about allowed context.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180914130512.10394-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Fixes: 04b8e946075d ("mm/util.c: improve kvfree() kerneldoc")
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: rename and change semantics of nr_indirectly_reclaimable_bytes

2018-10-26T23:26:32+00:00

The vmstat counter NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES was introduced by
commit eb59254608bc ("mm: introduce NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES") with
the goal of accounting objects that can be reclaimed, but cannot be
allocated via a SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT cache.  This is now possible via
kmalloc() with __GFP_RECLAIMABLE flag, and the dcache external names user
is converted.

The counter is however still useful for accounting direct page allocations
(i.e.  not slab) with a shrinker, such as the ION page pool.  So keep it,
and:

- change granularity to pages to be more like other counters; sub-page
  allocations should be able to use kmalloc
- rename the counter to NR_KERNEL_MISC_RECLAIMABLE
- expose the counter again in vmstat as "nr_kernel_misc_reclaimable"; we can
  again remove the check for not printing "hidden" counters

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180731090649.16028-5-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin 
Cc: Vijayanand Jitta 
Cc: Laura Abbott 
Cc: Sumit Semwal 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: move is_kernel_rodata() to asm-generic/sections.h

2018-10-16T10:53:27+00:00

Export this routine so that we can use it later in devm_kstrdup_const()
and devm_kfree().

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski 
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson 
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport 
Acked-by: Rasmus Villemoes 
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/util.c: improve kvfree() kerneldoc

2018-09-04T23:45:02+00:00

Scooped from an email from Matthew.

Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/util: add kernel-doc for kvfree

2018-08-24T01:48:43+00:00

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532626360-16650-3-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/util: make strndup_user description a kernel-doc comment

2018-08-24T01:48:43+00:00

Patch series "memory management documentation updates", v3.

Here are several updates to the mm documentation.

Aside from really minor changes in the first three patches, the updates
are:

* move the documentation of kstrdup and friends to "String Manipulation"
  section
* split memory management API into a separate .rst file
* adjust formating of the GFP flags description and include it in the
  reference documentation.

This patch (of 7):

The description of the strndup_user function misses '*' character at the
beginning of the comment to be proper kernel-doc.  Add the missing
character.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1532626360-16650-2-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: kvmalloc does not fallback to vmalloc for incompatible gfp flags

2018-06-08T00:34:38+00:00

kvmalloc warned about incompatible gfp_mask to catch abusers (mostly
GFP_NOFS) with an intention that this will motivate authors of the code
to fix those.  Linus argues that this just motivates people to do even
more hacks like

	if (gfp == GFP_KERNEL)
		kvmalloc
	else
		kmalloc

I haven't seen this happening much (Linus pointed to bucket_lock special
cases an atomic allocation but my git foo hasn't found much more) but it
is true that we can grow those in future.  Therefore Linus suggested to
simply not fallback to vmalloc for incompatible gfp flags and rather
stick with the kmalloc path.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180601115329.27807-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Tom Herbert 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'mm-rst' into docs-next

2018-04-16T20:25:08+00:00

Mike Rapoport says:

  These patches convert files in Documentation/vm to ReST format, add an
  initial index and link it to the top level documentation.

  There are no contents changes in the documentation, except few spelling
  fixes. The relatively large diffstat stems from the indentation and
  paragraph wrapping changes.

  I've tried to keep the formatting as consistent as possible, but I could
  miss some places that needed markup and add some markup where it was not
  necessary.

[jc: significant conflicts in vm/hmm.rst]

docs/vm: rename documentation files to .rst

2018-04-16T20:18:15+00:00

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

mm/gup.c: document return value

2018-04-14T00:10:27+00:00

__get_user_pages_fast handles errors differently from
get_user_pages_fast: the former always returns the number of pages
pinned, the later might return a negative error code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522962072-182137-6-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Huang Ying 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds