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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock.rst | 10 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst b/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst index 08af5caf036d..f77de49b1d51 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/kernel-api.rst @@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ String Manipulation .. kernel-doc:: lib/string.c :export: +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/string.h + :internal: + .. kernel-doc:: mm/util.c :functions: kstrdup kstrdup_const kstrndup kmemdup kmemdup_nul memdup_user vmemdup_user strndup_user memdup_user_nul diff --git a/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock.rst b/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock.rst index 889b00be469f..ff51f4a5494d 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock.rst @@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ Hugetlb-specific helpers: Support of split page table lock by an architecture =================================================== -There's no need in special enabling of PTE split page table lock: -everything required is done by pgtable_page_ctor() and pgtable_page_dtor(), -which must be called on PTE table allocation / freeing. +There's no need in special enabling of PTE split page table lock: everything +required is done by pgtable_pte_page_ctor() and pgtable_pte_page_dtor(), which +must be called on PTE table allocation / freeing. Make sure the architecture doesn't use slab allocator for page table allocation: slab uses page->slab_cache for its pages. @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ paths: i.e X86_PAE preallocate few PMDs on pgd_alloc(). With everything in place you can set CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK. -NOTE: pgtable_page_ctor() and pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() can fail -- it must +NOTE: pgtable_pte_page_ctor() and pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() can fail -- it must be handled properly. page->ptl @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ trick: split lock with enabled DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, but costs one more cache line for indirect access; -The spinlock_t allocated in pgtable_page_ctor() for PTE table and in +The spinlock_t allocated in pgtable_pte_page_ctor() for PTE table and in pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() for PMD table. Please, never access page->ptl directly -- use appropriate helper. |