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authorLinus Torvalds2016-05-19 20:00:06 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds2016-05-19 20:00:06 -0700
commita05a70db34ba24ca009e1c9cedaef26fd17d5470 (patch)
treed5d8d0c80293bed52f2103ccc56a9e09117dc983 /Documentation
parent03b979dd0323ace8e29a0561cd5232f73a060c09 (diff)
parent4741526b83c5d3a3d661d1896f9e7414c5730bcb (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: - fsnotify fix - poll() timeout fix - a few scripts/ tweaks - debugobjects updates - the (small) ocfs2 queue - Minor fixes to kernel/padata.c - Maybe half of the MM queue * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (117 commits) mm, page_alloc: restore the original nodemask if the fast path allocation failed mm, page_alloc: uninline the bad page part of check_new_page() mm, page_alloc: don't duplicate code in free_pcp_prepare mm, page_alloc: defer debugging checks of pages allocated from the PCP mm, page_alloc: defer debugging checks of freed pages until a PCP drain cpuset: use static key better and convert to new API mm, page_alloc: inline pageblock lookup in page free fast paths mm, page_alloc: remove unnecessary variable from free_pcppages_bulk mm, page_alloc: pull out side effects from free_pages_check mm, page_alloc: un-inline the bad part of free_pages_check mm, page_alloc: check multiple page fields with a single branch mm, page_alloc: remove field from alloc_context mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice mm, page_alloc: shortcut watermark checks for order-0 pages mm, page_alloc: reduce cost of fair zone allocation policy retry mm, page_alloc: shorten the page allocator fast path mm, page_alloc: check once if a zone has isolated pageblocks mm, page_alloc: move __GFP_HARDWALL modifications out of the fastpath mm, page_alloc: simplify last cpupid reset mm, page_alloc: remove unnecessary initialisation from __alloc_pages_nodemask() ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/debugobjects.tmpl26
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt10
5 files changed, 46 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/debugobjects.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/debugobjects.tmpl
index 24979f691e3e..7e4f34fde697 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/debugobjects.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/debugobjects.tmpl
@@ -316,8 +316,8 @@
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>
- The function returns 1 when the fixup was successful,
- otherwise 0. The return value is used to update the
+ The function returns true when the fixup was successful,
+ otherwise false. The return value is used to update the
statistics.
</para>
<para>
@@ -341,8 +341,8 @@
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>
- The function returns 1 when the fixup was successful,
- otherwise 0. The return value is used to update the
+ The function returns true when the fixup was successful,
+ otherwise false. The return value is used to update the
statistics.
</para>
<para>
@@ -359,7 +359,8 @@
statically initialized object or not. In case it is it calls
debug_object_init() and debug_object_activate() to make the
object known to the tracker and marked active. In this case
- the function should return 0 because this is not a real fixup.
+ the function should return false because this is not a real
+ fixup.
</para>
</sect1>
@@ -376,8 +377,8 @@
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>
- The function returns 1 when the fixup was successful,
- otherwise 0. The return value is used to update the
+ The function returns true when the fixup was successful,
+ otherwise false. The return value is used to update the
statistics.
</para>
</sect1>
@@ -397,8 +398,8 @@
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>
- The function returns 1 when the fixup was successful,
- otherwise 0. The return value is used to update the
+ The function returns true when the fixup was successful,
+ otherwise false. The return value is used to update the
statistics.
</para>
</sect1>
@@ -414,8 +415,8 @@
debug bucket.
</para>
<para>
- The function returns 1 when the fixup was successful,
- otherwise 0. The return value is used to update the
+ The function returns true when the fixup was successful,
+ otherwise false. The return value is used to update the
statistics.
</para>
<para>
@@ -427,7 +428,8 @@
case. The fixup function should check if this is a legitimate
case of a statically initialized object or not. In this case only
debug_object_init() should be called to make the object known to
- the tracker. Then the function should return 0 because this is not
+ the tracker. Then the function should return false because this
+ is not
a real fixup.
</para>
</sect1>
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index f5c35901144c..18d7f5bea077 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2168,6 +2168,14 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
+ memhp_default_state=online/offline
+ [KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
+ onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
+ set according to the
+ CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
+ option.
+ See Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt.
+
memmap=exactmap [KNL,X86] Enable setting of an exact
E820 memory map, as specified by the user.
Such memmap=exactmap lines can be constructed based on
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
index 443f4b44ad97..0d7cb955aa01 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
@@ -261,10 +261,11 @@ it according to the policy which can be read from "auto_online_blocks" file:
% cat /sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks
-The default is "offline" which means the newly added memory is not in a
-ready-to-use state and you have to "online" the newly added memory blocks
-manually. Automatic onlining can be requested by writing "online" to
-"auto_online_blocks" file:
+The default depends on the CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE kernel config
+option. If it is disabled the default is "offline" which means the newly added
+memory is not in a ready-to-use state and you have to "online" the newly added
+memory blocks manually. Automatic onlining can be requested by writing "online"
+to "auto_online_blocks" file:
% echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/auto_online_blocks
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index 34a5fece3121..720355cbdf45 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
- panic_on_oom
- percpu_pagelist_fraction
- stat_interval
+- stat_refresh
- swappiness
- user_reserve_kbytes
- vfs_cache_pressure
@@ -755,6 +756,19 @@ is 1 second.
==============================================================
+stat_refresh
+
+Any read or write (by root only) flushes all the per-cpu vm statistics
+into their global totals, for more accurate reports when testing
+e.g. cat /proc/sys/vm/stat_refresh /proc/meminfo
+
+As a side-effect, it also checks for negative totals (elsewhere reported
+as 0) and "fails" with EINVAL if any are found, with a warning in dmesg.
+(At time of writing, a few stats are known sometimes to be found negative,
+with no ill effects: errors and warnings on these stats are suppressed.)
+
+==============================================================
+
swappiness
This control is used to define how aggressive the kernel will swap
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
index d9cb65cf5cfd..fb0e1f2a19cc 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
@@ -394,9 +394,9 @@ hugepage natively. Once finished you can drop the page table lock.
Refcounting on THP is mostly consistent with refcounting on other compound
pages:
- - get_page()/put_page() and GUP operate in head page's ->_count.
+ - get_page()/put_page() and GUP operate in head page's ->_refcount.
- - ->_count in tail pages is always zero: get_page_unless_zero() never
+ - ->_refcount in tail pages is always zero: get_page_unless_zero() never
succeed on tail pages.
- map/unmap of the pages with PTE entry increment/decrement ->_mapcount
@@ -426,15 +426,15 @@ requests to split pinned huge page: it expects page count to be equal to
sum of mapcount of all sub-pages plus one (split_huge_page caller must
have reference for head page).
-split_huge_page uses migration entries to stabilize page->_count and
+split_huge_page uses migration entries to stabilize page->_refcount and
page->_mapcount.
We safe against physical memory scanners too: the only legitimate way
scanner can get reference to a page is get_page_unless_zero().
-All tail pages has zero ->_count until atomic_add(). It prevent scanner
+All tail pages has zero ->_refcount until atomic_add(). It prevent scanner
from geting reference to tail page up to the point. After the atomic_add()
-we don't care about ->_count value. We already known how many references
+we don't care about ->_refcount value. We already known how many references
with should uncharge from head page.
For head page get_page_unless_zero() will succeed and we don't mind. It's