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author | Linus Torvalds | 2021-02-24 16:20:38 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds | 2021-02-24 16:20:38 -0800 |
commit | 4c48faba5b7f18fb53e4aeeb768932f17c9da1ed (patch) | |
tree | 9d9d2ca881a670b5df55a663ee506f212c9514c3 /Documentation/core-api | |
parent | 062c84fccc4444805738d76a2699c4d3c95184ec (diff) | |
parent | a553e3cd2053501b658feec2be9a3b662eb1b22b (diff) |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"A few small subsystems and some of MM.
172 patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: hexagon, scripts, ntfs,
ocfs2, vfs, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, debug, pagecache, swap,
memcg, pagemap, mprotect, mremap, page-reporting, vmalloc, kasan,
pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, vmscan, z3fold, compaction,
mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, and migration)"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (172 commits)
mm/migrate: remove unneeded semicolons
hugetlbfs: remove unneeded return value of hugetlb_vmtruncate()
hugetlbfs: fix some comment typos
hugetlbfs: correct some obsolete comments about inode i_mutex
hugetlbfs: make hugepage size conversion more readable
hugetlbfs: remove meaningless variable avoid_reserve
hugetlbfs: correct obsolete function name in hugetlbfs_read_iter()
hugetlbfs: use helper macro default_hstate in init_hugetlbfs_fs
hugetlbfs: remove useless BUG_ON(!inode) in hugetlbfs_setattr()
hugetlbfs: remove special hugetlbfs_set_page_dirty()
mm/hugetlb: change hugetlb_reserve_pages() to type bool
mm, oom: fix a comment in dump_task()
mm/mempolicy: use helper range_in_vma() in queue_pages_test_walk()
numa balancing: migrate on fault among multiple bound nodes
mm, compaction: make fast_isolate_freepages() stay within zone
mm/compaction: fix misbehaviors of fast_find_migrateblock()
mm/compaction: correct deferral logic for proactive compaction
mm/compaction: remove duplicated VM_BUG_ON_PAGE !PageLocked
mm/compaction: remove rcu_read_lock during page compaction
z3fold: simplify the zhdr initialization code in init_z3fold_page()
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/core-api')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst b/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst index 2adffb3f7914..201b5423303b 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst @@ -19,11 +19,8 @@ User Space Memory Access Memory Allocation Controls ========================== -Functions which need to allocate memory often use GFP flags to express -how that memory should be allocated. The GFP acronym stands for "get -free pages", the underlying memory allocation function. Not every GFP -flag is allowed to every function which may allocate memory. Most -users will want to use a plain ``GFP_KERNEL``. +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/gfp.h + :internal: .. kernel-doc:: include/linux/gfp.h :doc: Page mobility and placement hints |