kernel/git/stable/linux.git/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt, branch master

docs/vm: rename documentation files to .rst

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

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

docs/vm: transhuge.txt: convert to ReST format

2018-04-16T20:18:14+00:00

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

Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt: fix trivial typos

2017-05-09T00:15:14+00:00

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fixes per Randy] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170405210259.2067-1-sj38.park@gmail.com Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2017-02-23T03:29:24+00:00

Merge updates from Andrew Morton: "142 patches: - DAX updates - various misc bits - OCFS2 updates - most of MM" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (142 commits) mm/z3fold.c: limit first_num to the actual range of possible buddy indexes mm: fix stray kernel-doc notation zram: remove obsolete sysfs attrs mm/memblock.c: remove unnecessary log and clean up oom-reaper: use madvise_dontneed() logic to decide if unmap the VMA mm: drop unused argument of zap_page_range() mm: drop zap_details::check_swap_entries mm: drop zap_details::ignore_dirty mm, page_alloc: warn_alloc nodemask is NULL when cpusets are disabled mm: help __GFP_NOFAIL allocations which do not trigger OOM killer mm, oom: do not enforce OOM killer for __GFP_NOFAIL automatically mm: consolidate GFP_NOFAIL checks in the allocator slowpath lib/show_mem.c: teach show_mem to work with the given nodemask arch, mm: remove arch specific show_mem mm, page_alloc: warn_alloc print nodemask mm, page_alloc: do not report all nodes in show_mem Revert "mm: bail out in shrink_inactive_list()" mm, vmscan: consider eligible zones in get_scan_count mm, vmscan: cleanup lru size claculations mm, vmscan: do not count freed pages as PGDEACTIVATE ...

mm, thp: add new defer+madvise defrag option

2017-02-23T00:41:30+00:00

There is no thp defrag option that currently allows MADV_HUGEPAGE regions to do direct compaction and reclaim while all other thp allocations simply trigger kswapd and kcompactd in the background and fail immediately. The "defer" setting simply triggers background reclaim and compaction for all regions, regardless of MADV_HUGEPAGE, which makes it unusable for our userspace where MADV_HUGEPAGE is being used to indicate the application is willing to wait for work for thp memory to be available. The "madvise" setting will do direct compaction and reclaim for these MADV_HUGEPAGE regions, but does not trigger kswapd and kcompactd in the background for anybody else. For reasonable usage, there needs to be a mesh between the two options. This patch introduces a fifth mode, "defer+madvise", that will do direct reclaim and compaction for MADV_HUGEPAGE regions and trigger background reclaim and compaction for everybody else so that hugepages may be available in the near future. A proposal to allow direct reclaim and compaction for MADV_HUGEPAGE regions as part of the "defer" mode, making it a very powerful setting and avoids breaking userspace, was offered: http://marc.info/?t=148236612700003 This additional mode is a compromise. A second proposal to allow both "defer" and "madvise" to be selected at the same time was also offered: http://marc.info/?t=148357345300001. This is possible, but there was a concern that it might break existing userspaces the parse the output of the defrag mode, so the fifth option was introduced instead. This patch also cleans up the helper function for storing to "enabled" and "defrag" since the former supports three modes while the latter supports five and triple_flag_store() was getting unnecessarily messy. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1701101614330.41805@chino.kir.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Doc: Fix double words in Documentation

2017-01-26T22:25:41+00:00

This patch fix some double words found in Documentation. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

mm: make transparent hugepage size public

2016-12-13T02:55:09+00:00

Test programs want to know the size of a transparent hugepage. While it is commonly the same as the size of a hugetlbfs page (shown as Hugepagesize in /proc/meminfo), that is not always so: powerpc implements transparent hugepages in a different way from hugetlbfs pages, so it's coincidence when their sizes are the same; and x86 and others can support more than one hugetlbfs page size. Add /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hpage_pmd_size to show the THP size in bytes - it's the same for Anonymous and Shmem hugepages. Call it hpage_pmd_size (after HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) rather than hpage_size, in case some transparent support for pud and pgd pages is added later. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LSU.2.11.1612052200290.13021@eggly.anvils Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: David Rientjes Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Dan Williams Cc: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

thp: update Documentation/{vm/transhuge,filesystems/proc}.txt

2016-07-26T23:19:19+00:00

Add info about tmpfs/shmem with huge pages. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-38-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation: vm: fix spelling mistakes

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: rename _count, field of the struct page, to _refcount

2016-05-20T02:12:14+00:00

Many developers already know that field for reference count of the struct page is _count and atomic type. They would try to handle it directly and this could break the purpose of page reference count tracepoint. To prevent direct _count modification, this patch rename it to _refcount and add warning message on the code. After that, developer who need to handle reference count will find that field should not be accessed directly. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comments, per Vlastimil] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt too] [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: sync ethernet driver changes] Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Johannes Berg Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Sunil Goutham Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Manish Chopra Cc: Yuval Mintz Cc: Tariq Toukan Cc: Saeed Mahameed Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds