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Linus Torvalds a7cbfd05f4 Merge branch 'for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
Pull percpu updates from Tejun Heo:
 "A lot of changes for percpu this time around. percpu inherited the
  same area allocator from the original pre-virtual-address-mapped
  implementation. This was from the time when percpu allocator wasn't
  used all that much and the implementation was focused on simplicity,
  with the unfortunate computational complexity of O(number of areas
  allocated from the chunk) per alloc / free.

  With the increase in percpu usage, we're hitting cases where the lack
  of scalability is hurting. The most prominent one right now is bpf
  perpcu map creation / destruction which may allocate and free a lot of
  entries consecutively and it's likely that the problem will become
  more prominent in the future.

  To address the issue, Dennis replaced the area allocator with hinted
  bitmap allocator which is more consistent. While the new allocator
  does perform a bit worse in some cases, it outperforms the old
  allocator way more than an order of magnitude in other more common
  scenarios while staying mostly flat in CPU overhead and completely
  flat in memory consumption"

* 'for-4.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (27 commits)
  percpu: update header to contain bitmap allocator explanation.
  percpu: update pcpu_find_block_fit to use an iterator
  percpu: use metadata blocks to update the chunk contig hint
  percpu: update free path to take advantage of contig hints
  percpu: update alloc path to only scan if contig hints are broken
  percpu: keep track of the best offset for contig hints
  percpu: skip chunks if the alloc does not fit in the contig hint
  percpu: add first_bit to keep track of the first free in the bitmap
  percpu: introduce bitmap metadata blocks
  percpu: replace area map allocator with bitmap
  percpu: generalize bitmap (un)populated iterators
  percpu: increase minimum percpu allocation size and align first regions
  percpu: introduce nr_empty_pop_pages to help empty page accounting
  percpu: change the number of pages marked in the first_chunk pop bitmap
  percpu: combine percpu address checks
  percpu: modify base_addr to be region specific
  percpu: setup_first_chunk rename schunk/dchunk to chunk
  percpu: end chunk area maps page aligned for the populated bitmap
  percpu: unify allocation of schunk and dchunk
  percpu: setup_first_chunk remove dyn_size and consolidate logic
  ...
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arch Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-09-06 20:49:49 -07:00
block Char/Misc drivers for 4.14-rc1 2017-09-05 11:08:17 -07:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - get_page upon reassignment to TX SGL 2017-08-22 15:03:27 +08:00
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samples bpf: Add lru_hash_lookup performance test 2017-09-01 09:57:38 -07:00
scripts modpost: simplify sec_name() 2017-09-06 17:27:24 -07:00
security netfilter: nf_hook_ops structs can be const 2017-07-31 19:10:44 +02:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.