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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-11-07 22:32:45 (GMT) |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-11-07 22:32:45 (GMT) |
commit | ad804a0b2a769a0eed29015c53fe395449c09d13 (patch) | |
tree | 3f96dd15fe24705cd8244bdb8fb81a7195f6ea04 /Documentation/vm | |
parent | ab9f2faf8f40604551336e5b0a18e0910a57b92c (diff) | |
parent | 5f2a2d5d423d5337a1392fa016ec23a8a4206006 (diff) | |
download | linux-ad804a0b2a769a0eed29015c53fe395449c09d13.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- most of the rest of MM
- procfs
- lib/ updates
- printk updates
- bitops infrastructure tweaks
- checkpatch updates
- nilfs2 update
- signals
- various other misc bits: coredump, seqfile, kexec, pidns, zlib, ipc,
dma-debug, dma-mapping, ...
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (102 commits)
ipc,msg: drop dst nil validation in copy_msg
include/linux/zutil.h: fix usage example of zlib_adler32()
panic: release stale console lock to always get the logbuf printed out
dma-debug: check nents in dma_sync_sg*
dma-mapping: tidy up dma_parms default handling
pidns: fix set/getpriority and ioprio_set/get in PRIO_USER mode
kexec: use file name as the output message prefix
fs, seqfile: always allow oom killer
seq_file: reuse string_escape_str()
fs/seq_file: use seq_* helpers in seq_hex_dump()
coredump: change zap_threads() and zap_process() to use for_each_thread()
coredump: ensure all coredumping tasks have SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP
signal: remove jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()->allow_signal(SIGCONT)
signal: introduce kernel_signal_stop() to fix jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()
signal: turn dequeue_signal_lock() into kernel_dequeue_signal()
signals: kill block_all_signals() and unblock_all_signals()
nilfs2: fix gcc uninitialized-variable warnings in powerpc build
nilfs2: fix gcc unused-but-set-variable warnings
MAINTAINERS: nilfs2: add header file for tracing
nilfs2: add tracepoints for analyzing reading and writing metadata files
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/balance | 14 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock | 4 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/balance b/Documentation/vm/balance index c46e68c..9645954 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/balance +++ b/Documentation/vm/balance @@ -1,12 +1,14 @@ Started Jan 2000 by Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@sgi.com> -Memory balancing is needed for non __GFP_WAIT as well as for non -__GFP_IO allocations. +Memory balancing is needed for !__GFP_ATOMIC and !__GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM as +well as for non __GFP_IO allocations. -There are two reasons to be requesting non __GFP_WAIT allocations: -the caller can not sleep (typically intr context), or does not want -to incur cost overheads of page stealing and possible swap io for -whatever reasons. +The first reason why a caller may avoid reclaim is that the caller can not +sleep due to holding a spinlock or is in interrupt context. The second may +be that the caller is willing to fail the allocation without incurring the +overhead of page reclaim. This may happen for opportunistic high-order +allocation requests that have order-0 fallback options. In such cases, +the caller may also wish to avoid waking kswapd. __GFP_IO allocation requests are made to prevent file system deadlocks. diff --git a/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock b/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock index 6dea4fd..62842a8 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock +++ b/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock @@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ everything required is done by pgtable_page_ctor() and pgtable_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 and page->first_page for its pages. -These fields share storage with page->ptl. +allocation: slab uses page->slab_cache for its pages. +This field shares storage with page->ptl. PMD split lock only makes sense if you have more than two page table levels. |