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2018-04-27docs/vm: ksm: split userspace interface to admin-guide/mm/ksm.rstMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-27docs/vm: ksm: udpate description of stable_node_{dups,chains}Mike Rapoport
Remove implementation details from sysfs parameter descriptions. Also move the paragraph discussing fragmentation issues and their possible solution to the "Design" section. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-27docs/vm: ksm: update stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs descriptionMike Rapoport
Make the description of stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs sysfs parameter less implementation aware and add a few words about this parameter in the "Design" section. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-27docs/vm: ksm: reshuffle text between "sysfs" and "design" sectionsMike Rapoport
The description of "max_page_sharing" sysfs attribute includes lots of implementation details that more naturally belong in the "Design" section. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-27docs/vm: ksm: add "Design" sectionMike Rapoport
Include the KSM description from the source code comment, add a subsection about reverse mapping and include kernel-doc references for KSM data structures. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-27docs/vm: ksm: (mostly) formatting updatesMike Rapoport
Aside from the formatting: * fixed typos * added section and sub-section headers * moved ksmd overview after the description of KSM origins Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-27docs/admin-guide/mm: start moving here files from Documentation/vmMike Rapoport
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>
2018-04-27docs/vm: pagemap: change document titleMike Rapoport
"pagemap from the Userspace Perspective" is not very descriptive for unaware readers. Since the document describes how to examine a process page tables, let's title it "Examining Process Page Tables" Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-27docs/vm: pagemap: formatting and spelling updatesMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-27docs/vm: hugetlbpage: move section about kernel development to hugetlbfs_reservMike Rapoport
The hugetlbpage describes hugetlbfs from the user perspective and newer hugetlbfs_reserv document targets kernel developers. Hence the section about hugetlbfs kernel development naturally belongs there. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-27docs/vm: hugetlbpage: minor improvementsMike Rapoport
* fixed mistypes * added internal cross-references for sections Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16Merge branch 'mm-rst' into docs-nextJonathan Corbet
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]
2018-04-16docs/vm: add index.rst and link MM documentation to top level indexMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: rename documentation files to .rstMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: zswap.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: zsmalloc.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: z3fold.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: userfaultfd.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: unevictable-lru.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: transhuge.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: swap_numa.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: split_page_table_lock: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: soft-dirty.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: slub.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: remap_file_pages.txt: conert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: page_owner: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: page_migration: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: pagemap.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: numa: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: page_frags convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: overcommit-accounting: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: numa_memory_policy.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: mmu_notifier.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: ksm.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: idle_page_tracking.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: hwpoison.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: hugetlbfs_reserv.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: hugetlbpage.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: hmm.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: highmem.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: frontswap.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: cleancache.txt: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: balance: convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: active_mm.txt convert to ReST formatMike Rapoport
Just add a label for cross-referencing and indent the text to make it ``literal`` Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-11page cache: use xa_lockMatthew Wilcox
Remove the address_space ->tree_lock and use the xa_lock newly added to the radix_tree_root. Rename the address_space ->page_tree to ->i_pages, since we don't really care that it's a tree. [willy@infradead.org: fix nds32, fs/dax.c] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180406145415.GB20605@bombadil.infradead.orgLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180313132639.17387-9-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-11Documentation/vm/hmm.txt: typos and syntaxes fixesJérôme Glisse
This fix typos and syntaxes, thanks to Randy Dunlap for pointing them out (they were all my faults). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180409151859.4713-1-jglisse@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-04-11mm/hmm: documentation editorial update to HMM documentationRalph Campbell
Update the documentation for HMM to fix minor typos and phrasing to be a bit more readable. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180323005527.758-2-jglisse@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Bates <sbates@raithlin.com> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> Cc: Evgeny Baskakov <ebaskakov@nvidia.com> Cc: Mark Hairgrove <mhairgrove@nvidia.com> Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-03-21docs/vm: update 00-INDEXMike Rapoport
Several files were added to Documentation/vm without updates to 00-INDEX. Fill in the missing documents Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-01-31Merge tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Documentation updates for 4.16. New stuff includes refcount_t documentation, errseq documentation, kernel-doc support for nested structure definitions, the removal of lots of crufty kernel-doc support for unused formats, SPDX tag documentation, the beginnings of a manual for subsystem maintainers, and lots of fixes and updates. As usual, some of the changesets reach outside of Documentation/ to effect kerneldoc comment fixes. It also adds the new LICENSES directory, of which Thomas promises I do not need to be the maintainer" * tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (65 commits) linux-next: docs-rst: Fix typos in kfigure.py linux-next: DOC: HWPOISON: Fix path to debugfs in hwpoison.txt Documentation: Fix misconversion of #if docs: add index entry for networking/msg_zerocopy Documentation: security/credentials.rst: explain need to sort group_list LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license LICENSES: Add the GPL 1.0 license LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception LICENSES: Add the MIT license LICENSES: Add the BSD-3-clause "Clear" license LICENSES: Add the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License LICENSES: Add the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license LICENSES: Add the LGPL-2.1 license LICENSES: Add the LGPL 2.0 license LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses scripts: kernel_doc: better handle show warnings logic fs/*/Kconfig: drop links to 404-compliant http://acl.bestbits.at doc: md: Fix a file name to md-fault.c in fault-injection.txt errseq: Add to documentation tree ...
2018-01-31mm: show total hugetlb memory consumption in /proc/meminfoRoman Gushchin
Currently we display some hugepage statistics (total, free, etc) in /proc/meminfo, but only for default hugepage size (e.g. 2Mb). If hugepages of different sizes are used (like 2Mb and 1Gb on x86-64), /proc/meminfo output can be confusing, as non-default sized hugepages are not reflected at all, and there are no signs that they are existing and consuming system memory. To solve this problem, let's display the total amount of memory, consumed by hugetlb pages of all sized (both free and used). Let's call it "Hugetlb", and display size in kB to match generic /proc/meminfo style. For example, (1024 2Mb pages and 2 1Gb pages are pre-allocated): $ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 8168984 kB MemFree: 3789276 kB <...> CmaFree: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 1024 HugePages_Free: 1024 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 HugePages_Surp: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB Hugetlb: 4194304 kB DirectMap4k: 32632 kB DirectMap2M: 4161536 kB DirectMap1G: 6291456 kB Also, this patch updates corresponding docs to reflect Hugetlb entry meaning and difference between Hugetlb and HugePages_Total * Hugepagesize. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171115231409.12131-1-guro@fb.com Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>