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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-04 21:34:27 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-04 21:34:27 +0200
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parentswait: strengthen language to discourage use (diff)
parentDocumentation: document hung_task_panic kernel parameter (diff)
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Merge tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around, including: - Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport. - An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script to keep it updated. - Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check SPDX tags. - Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this involved a fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of Documentation/ ... and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (103 commits) Documentation: document hung_task_panic kernel parameter docs/admin-guide/mm: add high level concepts overview docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section. docs: Use the kerneldoc comments for memalloc_no*() doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables docs/vm: transhuge: split userspace bits to admin-guide/mm/transhuge docs/vm: transhuge: minor updates docs/vm: transhuge: change sections order Documentation: arm: clean up Marvell Berlin family info Documentation: gpio: driver: Fix a typo and some odd grammar docs: ranoops.rst: fix location of ramoops.txt scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: rewrite it in perl with auto-fix mode docs: uio-howto.rst: use a code block to solve a warning mm, THP, doc: Add document for thp_swpout/thp_swpout_fallback w1: w1_io.c: fix a kernel-doc warning Documentation/process/posting: wrap text at 80 cols docs: admin-guide: add cgroup-v2 documentation Revert "Documentation/features/vm: Remove arch support status file for 'pte_special'" Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc. ...
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/Kconfig7
-rw-r--r--mm/cleancache.c2
-rw-r--r--mm/frontswap.c2
-rw-r--r--mm/hmm.c2
-rw-r--r--mm/huge_memory.c4
-rw-r--r--mm/hugetlb.c4
-rw-r--r--mm/ksm.c23
-rw-r--r--mm/mmap.c2
-rw-r--r--mm/rmap.c6
-rw-r--r--mm/util.c2
10 files changed, 36 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 9673e7fbb4f0..3e0b6e87f65d 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ config KSM
the many instances by a single page with that content, so
saving memory until one or another app needs to modify the content.
Recommended for use with KVM, or with other duplicative applications.
- See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information: KSM is inactive
+ See Documentation/vm/ksm.rst for more information: KSM is inactive
until a program has madvised that an area is MADV_MERGEABLE, and
root has set /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run to 1 (if CONFIG_SYSFS is set).
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter
it can be cleared by hands.
- See Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for more details.
+ See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details.
config ZSWAP
bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)"
@@ -657,7 +657,8 @@ config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING
be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement
within a compute cluster.
- See Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.txt for more details.
+ See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for
+ more details.
# arch_add_memory() comprehends device memory
config ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DEVICE
diff --git a/mm/cleancache.c b/mm/cleancache.c
index f7b9fdc79d97..126548b5a292 100644
--- a/mm/cleancache.c
+++ b/mm/cleancache.c
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
*
* This code provides the generic "frontend" layer to call a matching
* "backend" driver implementation of cleancache. See
- * Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt for more information.
+ * Documentation/vm/cleancache.rst for more information.
*
* Copyright (C) 2009-2010 Oracle Corp. All rights reserved.
* Author: Dan Magenheimer
diff --git a/mm/frontswap.c b/mm/frontswap.c
index fec8b5044040..4f5476a0f955 100644
--- a/mm/frontswap.c
+++ b/mm/frontswap.c
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
*
* This code provides the generic "frontend" layer to call a matching
* "backend" driver implementation of frontswap. See
- * Documentation/vm/frontswap.txt for more information.
+ * Documentation/vm/frontswap.rst for more information.
*
* Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Oracle Corp. All rights reserved.
* Author: Dan Magenheimer
diff --git a/mm/hmm.c b/mm/hmm.c
index 486dc394a5a3..e63e353830e8 100644
--- a/mm/hmm.c
+++ b/mm/hmm.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
#if defined(CONFIG_DEVICE_PRIVATE) || defined(CONFIG_DEVICE_PUBLIC)
/*
- * Device private memory see HMM (Documentation/vm/hmm.txt) or hmm.h
+ * Device private memory see HMM (Documentation/vm/hmm.rst) or hmm.h
*/
DEFINE_STATIC_KEY_FALSE(device_private_key);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(device_private_key);
diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
index b9f3dbd885bd..ac5591d8622c 100644
--- a/mm/huge_memory.c
+++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
@@ -1185,7 +1185,7 @@ static int do_huge_pmd_wp_page_fallback(struct vm_fault *vmf, pmd_t orig_pmd,
* mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end() happens which can lead to a
* device seeing memory write in different order than CPU.
*
- * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.txt
+ * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.rst
*/
pmdp_huge_clear_flush_notify(vma, haddr, vmf->pmd);
@@ -2037,7 +2037,7 @@ static void __split_huge_zero_page_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* replacing a zero pmd write protected page with a zero pte write
* protected page.
*
- * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.txt
+ * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.rst
*/
pmdp_huge_clear_flush(vma, haddr, pmd);
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
index 218679138255..129088710510 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -3291,7 +3291,7 @@ int copy_hugetlb_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst, struct mm_struct *src,
* table protection not changing it to point
* to a new page.
*
- * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.txt
+ * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.rst
*/
huge_ptep_set_wrprotect(src, addr, src_pte);
}
@@ -4357,7 +4357,7 @@ unsigned long hugetlb_change_protection(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* No need to call mmu_notifier_invalidate_range() we are downgrading
* page table protection not changing it to point to a new page.
*
- * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.txt
+ * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.rst
*/
i_mmap_unlock_write(vma->vm_file->f_mapping);
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end(mm, start, end);
diff --git a/mm/ksm.c b/mm/ksm.c
index e3cbf9a92f3c..7d6558f3bac9 100644
--- a/mm/ksm.c
+++ b/mm/ksm.c
@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@
#define DO_NUMA(x) do { } while (0)
#endif
-/*
+/**
+ * DOC: Overview
+ *
* A few notes about the KSM scanning process,
* to make it easier to understand the data structures below:
*
@@ -67,6 +69,21 @@
* this tree is fully assured to be working (except when pages are unmapped),
* and therefore this tree is called the stable tree.
*
+ * The stable tree node includes information required for reverse
+ * mapping from a KSM page to virtual addresses that map this page.
+ *
+ * In order to avoid large latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages,
+ * KSM maintains two types of nodes in the stable tree:
+ *
+ * * the regular nodes that keep the reverse mapping structures in a
+ * linked list
+ * * the "chains" that link nodes ("dups") that represent the same
+ * write protected memory content, but each "dup" corresponds to a
+ * different KSM page copy of that content
+ *
+ * Internally, the regular nodes, "dups" and "chains" are represented
+ * using the same :c:type:`struct stable_node` structure.
+ *
* In addition to the stable tree, KSM uses a second data structure called the
* unstable tree: this tree holds pointers to pages which have been found to
* be "unchanged for a period of time". The unstable tree sorts these pages
@@ -1049,7 +1066,7 @@ static int write_protect_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page,
* No need to notify as we are downgrading page table to read
* only not changing it to point to a new page.
*
- * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.txt
+ * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.rst
*/
entry = ptep_clear_flush(vma, pvmw.address, pvmw.pte);
/*
@@ -1145,7 +1162,7 @@ static int replace_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page,
* No need to notify as we are replacing a read only page with another
* read only page with the same content.
*
- * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.txt
+ * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.rst
*/
ptep_clear_flush(vma, addr, ptep);
set_pte_at_notify(mm, addr, ptep, newpte);
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index fc41c0543d7f..d817764a9974 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2828,7 +2828,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(remap_file_pages, unsigned long, start, unsigned long, size,
unsigned long ret = -EINVAL;
struct file *file;
- pr_warn_once("%s (%d) uses deprecated remap_file_pages() syscall. See Documentation/vm/remap_file_pages.txt.\n",
+ pr_warn_once("%s (%d) uses deprecated remap_file_pages() syscall. See Documentation/vm/remap_file_pages.rst.\n",
current->comm, current->pid);
if (prot)
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index 8d5337fed37b..6db729dc4c50 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -942,7 +942,7 @@ static bool page_mkclean_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* downgrading page table protection not changing it to point
* to a new page.
*
- * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.txt
+ * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.rst
*/
if (ret)
(*cleaned)++;
@@ -1599,7 +1599,7 @@ static bool try_to_unmap_one(struct page *page, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* point at new page while a device still is using this
* page.
*
- * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.txt
+ * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.rst
*/
dec_mm_counter(mm, mm_counter_file(page));
}
@@ -1609,7 +1609,7 @@ discard:
* done above for all cases requiring it to happen under page
* table lock before mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end()
*
- * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.txt
+ * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.rst
*/
page_remove_rmap(subpage, PageHuge(page));
put_page(page);
diff --git a/mm/util.c b/mm/util.c
index 45fc3169e7b0..c2d0a7cdb189 100644
--- a/mm/util.c
+++ b/mm/util.c
@@ -621,7 +621,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vm_memory_committed);
* succeed and -ENOMEM implies there is not.
*
* We currently support three overcommit policies, which are set via the
- * vm.overcommit_memory sysctl. See Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting
+ * vm.overcommit_memory sysctl. See Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.rst
*
* Strict overcommit modes added 2002 Feb 26 by Alan Cox.
* Additional code 2002 Jul 20 by Robert Love.