forked from Minki/linux
mainlining shenanigans
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__free_pages_core() is used when exposing fresh memory to the buddy during system boot and when onlining memory in generic_online_page(). generic_online_page() is used in two cases: 1. Direct memory onlining in online_pages(). 2. Deferred memory onlining in memory-ballooning-like mechanisms (HyperV balloon and virtio-mem), when parts of a section are kept fake-offline to be fake-onlined later on. In 1, we already place pages to the tail of the freelist. Pages will be freed to MIGRATE_ISOLATE lists first and moved to the tail of the freelists via undo_isolate_page_range(). In 2, we currently don't implement a proper rule. In case of virtio-mem, where we currently always online MAX_ORDER - 1 pages, the pages will be placed to the HEAD of the freelist - undesireable. While the hyper-v balloon calls generic_online_page() with single pages, usually it will call it on successive single pages in a larger block. The pages are fresh, so place them to the tail of the freelist and avoid the PCP. In __free_pages_core(), remove the now superflouos call to set_page_refcounted() and add a comment regarding page initialization and the refcount. Note: In 2. we currently don't shuffle. If ever relevant (page shuffling is usually of limited use in virtualized environments), we might want to shuffle after a sequence of generic_online_page() calls in the relevant callers. Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com> Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com> Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Scott Cheloha <cheloha@linux.ibm.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201005121534.15649-5-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
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.