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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst | 6 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst b/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst index fdd84cb8d511..b8e29f977f2d 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ using a number of wrapper functions: Query the address space, and return true if it is completely unevictable. -These are currently used in two places in the kernel: +These are currently used in three places in the kernel: (1) By ramfs to mark the address spaces of its inodes when they are created, and this mark remains for the life of the inode. @@ -154,6 +154,10 @@ These are currently used in two places in the kernel: swapped out; the application must touch the pages manually if it wants to ensure they're in memory. + (3) By the i915 driver to mark pinned address space until it's unpinned. The + amount of unevictable memory marked by i915 driver is roughly the bounded + object size in debugfs/dri/0/i915_gem_objects. + Detecting Unevictable Pages --------------------------- |