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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/api-summary.rst3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/buffer.rst12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst29
4 files changed, 42 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/api-summary.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/api-summary.rst
index 98db2ea5fa12..cc5cc7f3fbd8 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/api-summary.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/api-summary.rst
@@ -56,9 +56,6 @@ Other Functions
.. kernel-doc:: fs/namei.c
:export:
-.. kernel-doc:: fs/buffer.c
- :export:
-
.. kernel-doc:: block/bio.c
:export:
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/buffer.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/buffer.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ae24faf68efa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/buffer.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Buffer Heads
+============
+
+Linux uses buffer heads to maintain state about individual filesystem blocks.
+Buffer heads are deprecated and new filesystems should use iomap instead.
+
+Functions
+---------
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/buffer_head.h
+.. kernel-doc:: fs/buffer.c
+ :export:
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
index 1f9b4c905a6a..8f5c1ee02e2f 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/index.rst
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ filesystem implementations.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
+ buffer
journalling
fscrypt
fsverity
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
index 707e39280a9a..4d97258a7954 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -688,6 +688,7 @@ files are there, and which are missing.
============ ===============================================================
File Content
============ ===============================================================
+ allocinfo Memory allocations profiling information
apm Advanced power management info
bootconfig Kernel command line obtained from boot config,
and, if there were kernel parameters from the
@@ -953,6 +954,34 @@ also be allocatable although a lot of filesystem metadata may have to be
reclaimed to achieve this.
+allocinfo
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+Provides information about memory allocations at all locations in the code
+base. Each allocation in the code is identified by its source file, line
+number, module (if originates from a loadable module) and the function calling
+the allocation. The number of bytes allocated and number of calls at each
+location are reported.
+
+Example output.
+
+::
+
+ > sort -rn /proc/allocinfo
+ 127664128 31168 mm/page_ext.c:270 func:alloc_page_ext
+ 56373248 4737 mm/slub.c:2259 func:alloc_slab_page
+ 14880768 3633 mm/readahead.c:247 func:page_cache_ra_unbounded
+ 14417920 3520 mm/mm_init.c:2530 func:alloc_large_system_hash
+ 13377536 234 block/blk-mq.c:3421 func:blk_mq_alloc_rqs
+ 11718656 2861 mm/filemap.c:1919 func:__filemap_get_folio
+ 9192960 2800 kernel/fork.c:307 func:alloc_thread_stack_node
+ 4206592 4 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2567 func:nf_ct_alloc_hashtable
+ 4136960 1010 drivers/staging/ctagmod/ctagmod.c:20 [ctagmod] func:ctagmod_start
+ 3940352 962 mm/memory.c:4214 func:alloc_anon_folio
+ 2894464 22613 fs/kernfs/dir.c:615 func:__kernfs_new_node
+ ...
+
+
meminfo
~~~~~~~