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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-05-20 05:00:06 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-05-20 05:00:06 +0200 |
commit | a05a70db34ba24ca009e1c9cedaef26fd17d5470 (patch) | |
tree | d5d8d0c80293bed52f2103ccc56a9e09117dc983 /Documentation/vm | |
parent | Merge tag 'please-pull-misc-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel... (diff) | |
parent | mm, page_alloc: restore the original nodemask if the fast path allocation failed (diff) | |
download | linux-a05a70db34ba24ca009e1c9cedaef26fd17d5470.tar.xz linux-a05a70db34ba24ca009e1c9cedaef26fd17d5470.zip |
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()
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
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 |