linux/Documentation
Dan Williams a0653406a3 mm: document ZONE_DEVICE memory-model implications
Explain the general mechanisms of 'ZONE_DEVICE' pages and list the users
of 'devm_memremap_pages()'.

[dan.j.williams@intel.com: update ZONE_DEVICE memory model documentation]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156109575458.1409767.1885676287099277666.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156092354985.979959.15763234410543451710.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reported-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>	[ppc64]
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jane Chu <jane.chu@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Wei Yang <richardw.yang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-07-18 17:08:07 -07:00
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kbuild docs: kbuild: fix build with pdf and fix some minor issues 2019-07-15 11:03:04 -03:00
kernel-hacking docs: locking: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-07-15 08:53:27 -03:00
leds docs: leds: add it to the driver-api book 2019-07-15 09:20:28 -03:00
livepatch docs: add some directories to the main documentation index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
locking docs: locking: add it to the main index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
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media media: doc-rst: Fix typos 2019-06-27 07:35:47 -04:00
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netlabel docs: add some directories to the main documentation index 2019-07-15 11:03:03 -03:00
networking docs: admin-guide: move sysctl directory to it 2019-07-15 11:03:01 -03:00
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scsi scsi: ufs: Documentation: Announce ufs-tool v1.0 2019-06-26 22:47:51 -04:00
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