linux.git/Documentation/admin-guide/mm, branch v5.11 Linux kernel source tree docs/mm: concepts.rst: Correct the threshold to low watermark 2020-12-31T22:47:34+00:00 Liao Pingfang winndows@163.com 2020-12-27T07:15:19+00:00 c7e74b3c7b1cf4c04164ff16e6c047232fd3bcef It should be "low watermark" where we wake up kswapd daemon. Signed-off-by: Liao Pingfang <winndows@163.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1609053319-3112-1-git-send-email-winndows@163.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> 
It should be "low watermark" where we wake up kswapd daemon.

Signed-off-by: Liao Pingfang <winndows@163.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1609053319-3112-1-git-send-email-winndows@163.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-12-15T20:53:37+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2020-12-15T20:53:37+00:00 ac73e3dc8acd0a3be292755db30388c3580f5674 Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: - a few random little subsystems - almost all of the MM patches which are staged ahead of linux-next material. I'll trickle to post-linux-next work in as the dependents get merged up. Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, kbuild, ide, ntfs, ocfs2, arch, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, dax, debug, pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, hmm, vmalloc, documentation, kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, vmscan, z3fold, compaction, oom-kill, migration, cma, page-poison, userfaultfd, zswap, zsmalloc, uaccess, zram, and cleanups). * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (200 commits) mm: cleanup kstrto*() usage mm: fix fall-through warnings for Clang mm: slub: convert sysfs sprintf family to sysfs_emit/sysfs_emit_at mm: shmem: convert shmem_enabled_show to use sysfs_emit_at mm:backing-dev: use sysfs_emit in macro defining functions mm: huge_memory: convert remaining use of sprintf to sysfs_emit and neatening mm: use sysfs_emit for struct kobject * uses mm: fix kernel-doc markups zram: break the strict dependency from lzo zram: add stat to gather incompressible pages since zram set up zram: support page writeback mm/process_vm_access: remove redundant initialization of iov_r mm/zsmalloc.c: rework the list_add code in insert_zspage() mm/zswap: move to use crypto_acomp API for hardware acceleration mm/zswap: fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning mm/zswap: make struct kernel_param_ops definitions const userfaultfd/selftests: hint the test runner on required privilege userfaultfd/selftests: fix retval check for userfaultfd_open() userfaultfd/selftests: always dump something in modes userfaultfd: selftests: make __{s,u}64 format specifiers portable ... 
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few random little subsystems

 - almost all of the MM patches which are staged ahead of linux-next
   material. I'll trickle to post-linux-next work in as the dependents
   get merged up.

Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, kbuild, ide, ntfs,
ocfs2, arch, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, dax, debug, pagecache,
gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, hmm, vmalloc, documentation,
kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, vmscan, z3fold, compaction,
oom-kill, migration, cma, page-poison, userfaultfd, zswap, zsmalloc,
uaccess, zram, and cleanups).

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (200 commits)
  mm: cleanup kstrto*() usage
  mm: fix fall-through warnings for Clang
  mm: slub: convert sysfs sprintf family to sysfs_emit/sysfs_emit_at
  mm: shmem: convert shmem_enabled_show to use sysfs_emit_at
  mm:backing-dev: use sysfs_emit in macro defining functions
  mm: huge_memory: convert remaining use of sprintf to sysfs_emit and neatening
  mm: use sysfs_emit for struct kobject * uses
  mm: fix kernel-doc markups
  zram: break the strict dependency from lzo
  zram: add stat to gather incompressible pages since zram set up
  zram: support page writeback
  mm/process_vm_access: remove redundant initialization of iov_r
  mm/zsmalloc.c: rework the list_add code in insert_zspage()
  mm/zswap: move to use crypto_acomp API for hardware acceleration
  mm/zswap: fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
  mm/zswap: make struct kernel_param_ops definitions const
  userfaultfd/selftests: hint the test runner on required privilege
  userfaultfd/selftests: fix retval check for userfaultfd_open()
  userfaultfd/selftests: always dump something in modes
  userfaultfd: selftests: make __{s,u}64 format specifiers portable
  ...
docs/vm: remove unused 3 items explanation for /proc/vmstat 2020-12-15T20:13:42+00:00 Alex Shi alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com 2020-12-15T03:09:02+00:00 56db19fef3f1c28a2fac37079eb276aaffec2e3d Commit 5647bc293ab1 ("mm: compaction: Move migration fail/success stats to migrate.c"), removed 3 items in /proc/vmstat. but the docs still has their explanation. let's remove them. "compact_blocks_moved", "compact_pages_moved", "compact_pagemigrate_failed", Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1605520282-51993-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Commit 5647bc293ab1 ("mm: compaction: Move migration fail/success
stats to migrate.c"), removed 3 items in /proc/vmstat. but the docs
still has their explanation. let's remove them.

"compact_blocks_moved",
"compact_pages_moved",
"compact_pagemigrate_failed",

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1605520282-51993-1-git-send-email-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation: fix multiple typos found in the admin-guide subdirectory 2020-12-08T17:27:56+00:00 Andrew Klychkov andrew.a.klychkov@gmail.com 2020-12-04T07:28:48+00:00 751d5b27418345f56ee0bb6ce9da2988a228de10 Fix thirty five typos in dm-integrity.rst, dm-raid.rst, dm-zoned.rst, verity.rst, writecache.rst, tsx_async_abort.rst, md.rst, bttv.rst, dvb_references.rst, frontend-cardlist.rst, gspca-cardlist.rst, ipu3.rst, remote-controller.rst, mm/index.rst, numaperf.rst, userfaultfd.rst, module-signing.rst, imx-ddr.rst, intel-speed-select.rst, intel_pstate.rst, ramoops.rst, abi.rst, kernel.rst, vm.rst Signed-off-by: Andrew Klychkov <andrew.a.klychkov@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201204072848.GA49895@spblnx124.lan Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> 
Fix thirty five typos in dm-integrity.rst, dm-raid.rst, dm-zoned.rst,
verity.rst, writecache.rst, tsx_async_abort.rst, md.rst, bttv.rst,
dvb_references.rst, frontend-cardlist.rst, gspca-cardlist.rst, ipu3.rst,
remote-controller.rst, mm/index.rst, numaperf.rst, userfaultfd.rst,
module-signing.rst, imx-ddr.rst, intel-speed-select.rst,
intel_pstate.rst, ramoops.rst, abi.rst, kernel.rst, vm.rst

Signed-off-by: Andrew Klychkov <andrew.a.klychkov@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201204072848.GA49895@spblnx124.lan
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Merge tag 'acpi-5.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm 2020-10-14T18:42:04+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2020-10-14T18:42:04+00:00 cf1d2b44f6c701ffff58606b5b8a8996190d6e7d Pull ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki: "These add support for generic initiator-only proximity domains to the ACPI NUMA code and the architectures using it, clean up some non-ACPICA code referring to debug facilities from ACPICA, reduce the overhead related to accessing GPE registers, add a new DPTF (Dynamic Power and Thermal Framework) participant driver, update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision 20200925, add a new ACPI backlight whitelist entry, fix a few assorted issues and clean up some code. Specifics: - Add support for generic initiator-only proximity domains to the ACPI NUMA code and the architectures using it (Jonathan Cameron) - Clean up some non-ACPICA code referring to debug facilities from ACPICA that are not actually used in there (Hanjun Guo) - Add new DPTF driver for the PCH FIVR participant (Srinivas Pandruvada) - Reduce overhead related to accessing GPE registers in ACPICA and the OS interface layer and make it possible to access GPE registers using logical addresses if they are memory-mapped (Rafael Wysocki) - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision 20200925 including changes as follows: + Add predefined names from the SMBus sepcification (Bob Moore) + Update acpi_help UUID list (Bob Moore) + Return exceptions for string-to-integer conversions in iASL (Bob Moore) + Add a new "ALL <NameSeg>" debugger command (Bob Moore) + Add support for 64 bit risc-v compilation (Colin Ian King) + Do assorted cleanups (Bob Moore, Colin Ian King, Randy Dunlap) - Add new ACPI backlight whitelist entry for HP 635 Notebook (Alex Hung) - Move TPS68470 OpRegion driver to drivers/acpi/pmic/ and split out Kconfig and Makefile specific for ACPI PMIC (Andy Shevchenko) - Clean up the ACPI SoC driver for AMD SoCs (Hanjun Guo) - Add missing config_item_put() to fix refcount leak (Hanjun Guo) - Drop lefrover field from struct acpi_memory_device (Hanjun Guo) - Make the ACPI extlog driver check for RDMSR failures (Ben Hutchings) - Fix handling of lid state changes in the ACPI button driver when input device is closed (Dmitry Torokhov) - Fix several assorted build issues (Barnabás Pőcze, John Garry, Nathan Chancellor, Tian Tao) - Drop unused inline functions and reduce code duplication by using kobj_to_dev() in the NFIT parsing code (YueHaibing, Wang Qing) - Serialize tools/power/acpi Makefile (Thomas Renninger)" * tag 'acpi-5.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (64 commits) ACPICA: Update version to 20200925 Version 20200925 ACPICA: Remove unnecessary semicolon ACPICA: Debugger: Add a new command: "ALL <NameSeg>" ACPICA: iASL: Return exceptions for string-to-integer conversions ACPICA: acpi_help: Update UUID list ACPICA: Add predefined names found in the SMBus sepcification ACPICA: Tree-wide: fix various typos and spelling mistakes ACPICA: Drop the repeated word "an" in a comment ACPICA: Add support for 64 bit risc-v compilation ACPI: button: fix handling lid state changes when input device closed tools/power/acpi: Serialize Makefile ACPI: scan: Replace ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT() with pr_debug() ACPI: memhotplug: Remove 'state' from struct acpi_memory_device ACPI / extlog: Check for RDMSR failure ACPI: Make acpi_evaluate_dsm() prototype consistent docs: mm: numaperf.rst Add brief description for access class 1. node: Add access1 class to represent CPU to memory characteristics ACPI: HMAT: Fix handling of changes from ACPI 6.2 to ACPI 6.3 ACPI: Let ACPI know we support Generic Initiator Affinity Structures x86: Support Generic Initiator only proximity domains ... 
Pull ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These add support for generic initiator-only proximity domains to the
  ACPI NUMA code and the architectures using it, clean up some
  non-ACPICA code referring to debug facilities from ACPICA, reduce the
  overhead related to accessing GPE registers, add a new DPTF (Dynamic
  Power and Thermal Framework) participant driver, update the ACPICA
  code in the kernel to upstream revision 20200925, add a new ACPI
  backlight whitelist entry, fix a few assorted issues and clean up some
  code.

  Specifics:

   - Add support for generic initiator-only proximity domains to the
     ACPI NUMA code and the architectures using it (Jonathan Cameron)

   - Clean up some non-ACPICA code referring to debug facilities from
     ACPICA that are not actually used in there (Hanjun Guo)

   - Add new DPTF driver for the PCH FIVR participant (Srinivas
     Pandruvada)

   - Reduce overhead related to accessing GPE registers in ACPICA and
     the OS interface layer and make it possible to access GPE registers
     using logical addresses if they are memory-mapped (Rafael Wysocki)

   - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision 20200925
     including changes as follows:
      + Add predefined names from the SMBus sepcification (Bob Moore)
      + Update acpi_help UUID list (Bob Moore)
      + Return exceptions for string-to-integer conversions in iASL (Bob
        Moore)
      + Add a new "ALL <NameSeg>" debugger command (Bob Moore)
      + Add support for 64 bit risc-v compilation (Colin Ian King)
      + Do assorted cleanups (Bob Moore, Colin Ian King, Randy Dunlap)

   - Add new ACPI backlight whitelist entry for HP 635 Notebook (Alex
     Hung)

   - Move TPS68470 OpRegion driver to drivers/acpi/pmic/ and split out
     Kconfig and Makefile specific for ACPI PMIC (Andy Shevchenko)

   - Clean up the ACPI SoC driver for AMD SoCs (Hanjun Guo)

   - Add missing config_item_put() to fix refcount leak (Hanjun Guo)

   - Drop lefrover field from struct acpi_memory_device (Hanjun Guo)

   - Make the ACPI extlog driver check for RDMSR failures (Ben
     Hutchings)

   - Fix handling of lid state changes in the ACPI button driver when
     input device is closed (Dmitry Torokhov)

   - Fix several assorted build issues (Barnabás Pőcze, John Garry,
     Nathan Chancellor, Tian Tao)

   - Drop unused inline functions and reduce code duplication by using
     kobj_to_dev() in the NFIT parsing code (YueHaibing, Wang Qing)

   - Serialize tools/power/acpi Makefile (Thomas Renninger)"

* tag 'acpi-5.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (64 commits)
  ACPICA: Update version to 20200925 Version 20200925
  ACPICA: Remove unnecessary semicolon
  ACPICA: Debugger: Add a new command: "ALL <NameSeg>"
  ACPICA: iASL: Return exceptions for string-to-integer conversions
  ACPICA: acpi_help: Update UUID list
  ACPICA: Add predefined names found in the SMBus sepcification
  ACPICA: Tree-wide: fix various typos and spelling mistakes
  ACPICA: Drop the repeated word "an" in a comment
  ACPICA: Add support for 64 bit risc-v compilation
  ACPI: button: fix handling lid state changes when input device closed
  tools/power/acpi: Serialize Makefile
  ACPI: scan: Replace ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT() with pr_debug()
  ACPI: memhotplug: Remove 'state' from struct acpi_memory_device
  ACPI / extlog: Check for RDMSR failure
  ACPI: Make acpi_evaluate_dsm() prototype consistent
  docs: mm: numaperf.rst Add brief description for access class 1.
  node: Add access1 class to represent CPU to memory characteristics
  ACPI: HMAT: Fix handling of changes from ACPI 6.2 to ACPI 6.3
  ACPI: Let ACPI know we support Generic Initiator Affinity Structures
  x86: Support Generic Initiator only proximity domains
  ...
doc/vm: fix typo in the hugetlb admin documentation 2020-10-14T01:38:33+00:00 Baoquan He bhe@redhat.com 2020-10-13T23:56:17+00:00 540809be526724cfa8703d08b029d323fc123a41 Change 'pecify' to 'Specify'. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200723032248.24772-4-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Change 'pecify' to 'Specify'.

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200723032248.24772-4-bhe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
docs: mm: numaperf.rst Add brief description for access class 1. 2020-10-02T16:51:57+00:00 Jonathan Cameron Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com 2020-09-30T14:05:47+00:00 dc9e7860df91625fef04d7016182653e8f678f05 Try to make minimal changes to the document which already describes access class 0 in a generic fashion (including IO initiatiors that are not CPUs). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> 
Try to make minimal changes to the document which already describes
access class 0 in a generic fashion (including IO initiatiors that
are not CPUs).

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Merge tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux 2020-08-05T05:47:54+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2020-08-05T05:47:54+00:00 2324d50d051ec0f14a548e78554fb02513d6dcef Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a while to come. Changes include: - Some new Chinese translations - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS URLs - Some block-mq documentation - More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or something...:) - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more" * tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits) scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors docs: ia64: correct typo mailmap: add entry for <alobakin@marvell.com> doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location devices.txt: document rfkill allocation PCI: correct flag name docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory ... 
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
  while to come. Changes include:

   - Some new Chinese translations

   - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS
     URLs

   - Some block-mq documentation

   - More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
     essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again
     for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or
     something...:)

   - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more"

* tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits)
  scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors
  docs: ia64: correct typo
  mailmap: add entry for <alobakin@marvell.com>
  doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version
  Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake
  MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location
  devices.txt: document rfkill allocation
  PCI: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names
  docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis
  docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes
  docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake
  CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag
  doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section
  doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version
  doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index
  doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label
  futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory
  ...
docs: admin-guide/mm/index: Fix reference to nonexistent document 2020-07-23T20:21:37+00:00 Daniel W. S. Almeida dwlsalmeida@gmail.com 2020-07-18T16:50:55+00:00 2b7295c086b8f497149166aadef513e6e2ac5a74 Fix the following warning: WARNING: toctree contains reference to nonexistent document 'admin-guide/mm/nommu-map' This was due to a typo. Signed-off-by: Daniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200718165107.625847-1-dwlsalmeida@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> 
Fix the following warning:

WARNING: toctree contains reference to nonexistent document
'admin-guide/mm/nommu-map'

This was due to a typo.

Signed-off-by: Daniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200718165107.625847-1-dwlsalmeida@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
docs/mm: concepts.rst: remove unnecessary word 2020-07-23T20:02:58+00:00 Bhaskar Chowdhury unixbhaskar@gmail.com 2020-07-21T11:22:51+00:00 cb66eb11da6500f8a0fb37260be0e714b5093496 Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200721112251.6100-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> 
Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200721112251.6100-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>