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There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around, 

including:
 
  - Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the
    memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport.
 
  - An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script to
    keep it updated.
 
  - Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check SPDX
    tags.
 
  - Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this involved a
    fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of Documentation/
 
 ...and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around,
  including:

   - Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the
     memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport.

   - An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script
     to keep it updated.

   - Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check
     SPDX tags.

   - Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this
     involved a fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of
     Documentation/

  ... and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc"

* tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (103 commits)
  Documentation: document hung_task_panic kernel parameter
  docs/admin-guide/mm: add high level concepts overview
  docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section.
  docs: Use the kerneldoc comments for memalloc_no*()
  doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs
  docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables
  docs/vm: transhuge: split userspace bits to admin-guide/mm/transhuge
  docs/vm: transhuge: minor updates
  docs/vm: transhuge: change sections order
  Documentation: arm: clean up Marvell Berlin family info
  Documentation: gpio: driver: Fix a typo and some odd grammar
  docs: ranoops.rst: fix location of ramoops.txt
  scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: rewrite it in perl with auto-fix mode
  docs: uio-howto.rst: use a code block to solve a warning
  mm, THP, doc: Add document for thp_swpout/thp_swpout_fallback
  w1: w1_io.c: fix a kernel-doc warning
  Documentation/process/posting: wrap text at 80 cols
  docs: admin-guide: add cgroup-v2 documentation
  Revert "Documentation/features/vm: Remove arch support status file for 'pte_special'"
  Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc.
  ...
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@ -64,8 +64,6 @@ auxdisplay/
- misc. LCD driver documentation (cfag12864b, ks0108).
backlight/
- directory with info on controlling backlights in flat panel displays
bcache.txt
- Block-layer cache on fast SSDs to improve slow (raid) I/O performance.
block/
- info on the Block I/O (BIO) layer.
blockdev/
@ -78,18 +76,10 @@ bus-devices/
- directory with info on TI GPMC (General Purpose Memory Controller)
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
- how to access I/O mapped memory from within device drivers.
cachetlb.txt
- describes the cache/TLB flushing interfaces Linux uses.
cdrom/
- directory with information on the CD-ROM drivers that Linux has.
cgroup-v1/
- cgroups v1 features, including cpusets and memory controller.
cgroup-v2.txt
- cgroups v2 features, including cpusets and memory controller.
circular-buffers.txt
- how to make use of the existing circular buffer infrastructure
clk.txt
- info on the common clock framework
cma/
- Continuous Memory Area (CMA) debugfs interface.
conf.py

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@ -90,4 +90,4 @@ Date: December 2009
Contact: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Description:
The node's huge page size control/query attributes.
See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst

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@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ Description:
free_hugepages
surplus_hugepages
resv_hugepages
See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt for details.
See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst for details.

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@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Description: Kernel Samepage Merging daemon sysfs interface
sleep_millisecs: how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between
scans.
See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information.
See Documentation/vm/ksm.rst for more information.
What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes
Date: January 2013

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@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Description:
The alloc_calls file is read-only and lists the kernel code
locations from which allocations for this cache were performed.
The alloc_calls file only contains information if debugging is
enabled for that cache (see Documentation/vm/slub.txt).
enabled for that cache (see Documentation/vm/slub.rst).
What: /sys/kernel/slab/cache/alloc_fastpath
Date: February 2008
@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ Contact: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Description:
The free_calls file is read-only and lists the locations of
object frees if slab debugging is enabled (see
Documentation/vm/slub.txt).
Documentation/vm/slub.rst).
What: /sys/kernel/slab/cache/free_fastpath
Date: February 2008

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@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking.
:maxdepth: 1
initrd
cgroup-v2
serial-console
braille-console
parport
@ -60,9 +61,11 @@ configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking.
mono
java
ras
bcache
pm/index
thunderbolt
LSM/index
mm/index
.. only:: subproject and html

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@ -106,11 +106,11 @@
use by PCI
Format: <irq>,<irq>...
acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
acpi_mask_gpe= [HW,ACPI]
Due to the existence of _Lxx/_Exx, some GPEs triggered
by unsupported hardware/firmware features can result in
GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
the GPE dispatcher.
GPE floodings that cannot be automatically disabled by
the GPE dispatcher.
This facility can be used to prevent such uncontrolled
GPE floodings.
Format: <int>
@ -472,10 +472,10 @@
for platform specific values (SB1, Loongson3 and
others).
ccw_timeout_log [S390]
ccw_timeout_log [S390]
See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
- foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in
@ -518,7 +518,7 @@
those clocks in any way. This parameter is useful for
debug and development, but should not be needed on a
platform with proper driver support. For more
information, see Documentation/clk.txt.
information, see Documentation/driver-api/clk.rst.
clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
[Deprecated]
@ -641,8 +641,8 @@
hvc<n> Use the hypervisor console device <n>. This is for
both Xen and PowerPC hypervisors.
If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
If the device connected to the port is not a TTY but a braille
device, prepend "brl," before the device type, for instance
console=brl,ttyS0
For now, only VisioBraille is supported.
@ -662,7 +662,7 @@
consoleblank= [KNL] The console blank (screen saver) timeout in
seconds. A value of 0 disables the blank timer.
Defaults to 0.
Defaults to 0.
coredump_filter=
[KNL] Change the default value for
@ -730,7 +730,7 @@
or memory reserved is below 4G.
cryptomgr.notests
[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
[KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
cs89x0_dma= [HW,NET]
Format: <dma>
@ -746,7 +746,7 @@
Format: <port#>,<type>
See also Documentation/input/devices/joystick-parport.rst
ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
ddebug_query= [KNL,DYNAMIC_DEBUG] Enable debug messages at early boot
time. See
Documentation/admin-guide/dynamic-debug-howto.rst for
details. Deprecated, see dyndbg.
@ -833,7 +833,7 @@
causing system reset or hang due to sending
INIT from AP to BSP.
disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
disable_ddw [PPC/PSERIES]
Disable Dynamic DMA Window support. Use this if
to workaround buggy firmware.
@ -1188,7 +1188,7 @@
parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call
ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
forcepae [X86-32]
forcepae [X86-32]
Forcefully enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
Many Pentium M systems disable PAE but may have a
functionally usable PAE implementation.
@ -1247,7 +1247,7 @@
gamma= [HW,DRM]
gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
gart_fix_e820= [X86_64] disable the fix e820 for K8 GART
Format: off | on
default: on
@ -1341,23 +1341,32 @@
x86-64 are 2M (when the CPU supports "pse") and 1G
(when the CPU supports the "pdpe1gb" cpuinfo flag).
hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
from listed z/VM user IDs only.
hung_task_panic=
[KNL] Should the hung task detector generate panics.
Format: <integer>
A nonzero value instructs the kernel to panic when a
hung task is detected. The default value is controlled
by the CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC build-time
option. The value selected by this boot parameter can
be changed later by the kernel.hung_task_panic sysctl.
hvc_iucv= [S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
hvc_iucv_allow= [S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
from listed z/VM user IDs only.
keep_bootcon [KNL]
Do not unregister boot console at start. This is only
useful for debugging when something happens in the window
between unregistering the boot console and initializing
the real console.
i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
or register an additional I2C bus that is not
registered from board initialization code.
Format:
<bus_id>,<clkrate>
i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
or register an additional I2C bus that is not
registered from board initialization code.
Format:
<bus_id>,<clkrate>
i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
i8042.unmask_kbd_data
@ -1386,7 +1395,7 @@
Default: only on s2r transitions on x86; most other
architectures force reset to be always executed
i8042.unlock [HW] Unlock (ignore) the keylock
i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
i8042.kbdreset [HW] Reset device connected to KBD port
i810= [HW,DRM]
@ -1548,13 +1557,13 @@
programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files
opened for read by uid=0.
ima_template= [IMA]
ima_template= [IMA]
Select one of defined IMA measurements template formats.
Formats: { "ima" | "ima-ng" | "ima-sig" }
Default: "ima-ng"
ima_template_fmt=
[IMA] Define a custom template format.
[IMA] Define a custom template format.
Format: { "field1|...|fieldN" }
ima.ahash_minsize= [IMA] Minimum file size for asynchronous hash usage
@ -1597,7 +1606,7 @@
inport.irq= [HW] Inport (ATI XL and Microsoft) busmouse driver
Format: <irq>
int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
int_pln_enable [x86] Enable power limit notification interrupt
integrity_audit=[IMA]
Format: { "0" | "1" }
@ -1650,39 +1659,39 @@
0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle.
1 to 9 specify maximum depth of C-state.
intel_pstate= [X86]
disable
Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
scaling driver for the supported processors
passive
Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
feature.
force
Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
should be used with caution. This option does not work with
processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
no_hwp
Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
if available.
hwp_only
Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
support_acpi_ppc
Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
Description Table, specifies preferred power management
profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
then this feature is turned on by default.
per_cpu_perf_limits
Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
cpufreq sysfs interface
intel_pstate= [X86]
disable
Do not enable intel_pstate as the default
scaling driver for the supported processors
passive
Use intel_pstate as a scaling driver, but configure it
to work with generic cpufreq governors (instead of
enabling its internal governor). This mode cannot be
used along with the hardware-managed P-states (HWP)
feature.
force
Enable intel_pstate on systems that prohibit it by default
in favor of acpi-cpufreq. Forcing the intel_pstate driver
instead of acpi-cpufreq may disable platform features, such
as thermal controls and power capping, that rely on ACPI
P-States information being indicated to OSPM and therefore
should be used with caution. This option does not work with
processors that aren't supported by the intel_pstate driver
or on platforms that use pcc-cpufreq instead of acpi-cpufreq.
no_hwp
Do not enable hardware P state control (HWP)
if available.
hwp_only
Only load intel_pstate on systems which support
hardware P state control (HWP) if available.
support_acpi_ppc
Enforce ACPI _PPC performance limits. If the Fixed ACPI
Description Table, specifies preferred power management
profile as "Enterprise Server" or "Performance Server",
then this feature is turned on by default.
per_cpu_perf_limits
Allow per-logical-CPU P-State performance control limits using
cpufreq sysfs interface
intremap= [X86-64, Intel-IOMMU]
on enable Interrupt Remapping (default)
@ -2026,7 +2035,7 @@
* [no]ncqtrim: Turn off queued DSM TRIM.
* nohrst, nosrst, norst: suppress hard, soft
and both resets.
and both resets.
* rstonce: only attempt one reset during
hot-unplug link recovery
@ -2214,7 +2223,7 @@
[KNL,SH] Allow user to override the default size for
per-device physically contiguous DMA buffers.
memhp_default_state=online/offline
memhp_default_state=online/offline
[KNL] Set the initial state for the memory hotplug
onlining policy. If not specified, the default value is
set according to the
@ -2764,7 +2773,7 @@
[X86,PV_OPS] Disable paravirtualized VMware scheduler
clock and use the default one.
no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
no-steal-acc [X86,KVM] Disable paravirtualized steal time accounting.
steal time is computed, but won't influence scheduler
behaviour
@ -2825,7 +2834,7 @@
notsc [BUGS=X86-32] Disable Time Stamp Counter
nowatchdog [KNL] Disable both lockup detectors, i.e.
soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
soft-lockup and NMI watchdog (hard-lockup).
nowb [ARM]
@ -2845,7 +2854,7 @@
If the dependencies are under your control, you can
turn on cpu0_hotplug.
nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
nps_mtm_hs_ctr= [KNL,ARC]
This parameter sets the maximum duration, in
cycles, each HW thread of the CTOP can run
without interruptions, before HW switches it.
@ -2986,7 +2995,7 @@
pci=option[,option...] [PCI] various PCI subsystem options:
earlydump [X86] dump PCI config space before the kernel
changes anything
changes anything
off [X86] don't probe for the PCI bus
bios [X86-32] force use of PCI BIOS, don't access
the hardware directly. Use this if your machine
@ -3074,7 +3083,7 @@
is enabled by default. If you need to use this,
please report a bug.
nocrs [X86] Ignore PCI host bridge windows from ACPI.
If you need to use this, please report a bug.
If you need to use this, please report a bug.
routeirq Do IRQ routing for all PCI devices.
This is normally done in pci_enable_device(),
so this option is a temporary workaround
@ -3917,7 +3926,7 @@
cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
own.
For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
@ -3931,7 +3940,7 @@
slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
last alloc / free. For more information see
Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
@ -3945,7 +3954,7 @@
Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
fragmentation. For more information see
Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
@ -3954,12 +3963,12 @@
the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
lower than slub_max_order.
For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
@ -4357,7 +4366,8 @@
Format: [always|madvise|never]
Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
with respect to transparent hugepages.
See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
for more details.
tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Format: <string>
@ -4435,7 +4445,7 @@
usbcore.initial_descriptor_timeout=
[USB] Specifies timeout for the initial 64-byte
USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
USB_REQ_GET_DESCRIPTOR request in milliseconds
(default 5000 = 5.0 seconds).
usbcore.nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem

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.. _mm_concepts:
=================
Concepts overview
=================
The memory management in Linux is complex system that evolved over the
years and included more and more functionality to support variety of
systems from MMU-less microcontrollers to supercomputers. The memory
management for systems without MMU is called ``nommu`` and it
definitely deserves a dedicated document, which hopefully will be
eventually written. Yet, although some of the concepts are the same,
here we assume that MMU is available and CPU can translate a virtual
address to a physical address.
.. contents:: :local:
Virtual Memory Primer
=====================
The physical memory in a computer system is a limited resource and
even for systems that support memory hotplug there is a hard limit on
the amount of memory that can be installed. The physical memory is not
necessary contiguous, it might be accessible as a set of distinct
address ranges. Besides, different CPU architectures, and even
different implementations of the same architecture have different view
how these address ranges defined.
All this makes dealing directly with physical memory quite complex and
to avoid this complexity a concept of virtual memory was developed.
The virtual memory abstracts the details of physical memory from the
application software, allows to keep only needed information in the
physical memory (demand paging) and provides a mechanism for the
protection and controlled sharing of data between processes.
With virtual memory, each and every memory access uses a virtual
address. When the CPU decodes the an instruction that reads (or
writes) from (or to) the system memory, it translates the `virtual`
address encoded in that instruction to a `physical` address that the
memory controller can understand.
The physical system memory is divided into page frames, or pages. The
size of each page is architecture specific. Some architectures allow
selection of the page size from several supported values; this
selection is performed at the kernel build time by setting an
appropriate kernel configuration option.
Each physical memory page can be mapped as one or more virtual
pages. These mappings are described by page tables that allow
translation from virtual address used by programs to real address in
the physical memory. The page tables organized hierarchically.
The tables at the lowest level of the hierarchy contain physical
addresses of actual pages used by the software. The tables at higher
levels contain physical addresses of the pages belonging to the lower
levels. The pointer to the top level page table resides in a
register. When the CPU performs the address translation, it uses this
register to access the top level page table. The high bits of the
virtual address are used to index an entry in the top level page
table. That entry is then used to access the next level in the
hierarchy with the next bits of the virtual address as the index to
that level page table. The lowest bits in the virtual address define
the offset inside the actual page.
Huge Pages
==========
The address translation requires several memory accesses and memory
accesses are slow relatively to CPU speed. To avoid spending precious
processor cycles on the address translation, CPUs maintain a cache of
such translations called Translation Lookaside Buffer (or
TLB). Usually TLB is pretty scarce resource and applications with
large memory working set will experience performance hit because of
TLB misses.
Many modern CPU architectures allow mapping of the memory pages
directly by the higher levels in the page table. For instance, on x86,
it is possible to map 2M and even 1G pages using entries in the second
and the third level page tables. In Linux such pages are called
`huge`. Usage of huge pages significantly reduces pressure on TLB,
improves TLB hit-rate and thus improves overall system performance.
There are two mechanisms in Linux that enable mapping of the physical
memory with the huge pages. The first one is `HugeTLB filesystem`, or
hugetlbfs. It is a pseudo filesystem that uses RAM as its backing
store. For the files created in this filesystem the data resides in
the memory and mapped using huge pages. The hugetlbfs is described at
:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst <hugetlbpage>`.
Another, more recent, mechanism that enables use of the huge pages is
called `Transparent HugePages`, or THP. Unlike the hugetlbfs that
requires users and/or system administrators to configure what parts of
the system memory should and can be mapped by the huge pages, THP
manages such mappings transparently to the user and hence the
name. See
:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst <admin_guide_transhuge>`
for more details about THP.
Zones
=====
Often hardware poses restrictions on how different physical memory
ranges can be accessed. In some cases, devices cannot perform DMA to
all the addressable memory. In other cases, the size of the physical
memory exceeds the maximal addressable size of virtual memory and
special actions are required to access portions of the memory. Linux
groups memory pages into `zones` according to their possible
usage. For example, ZONE_DMA will contain memory that can be used by
devices for DMA, ZONE_HIGHMEM will contain memory that is not
permanently mapped into kernel's address space and ZONE_NORMAL will
contain normally addressed pages.
The actual layout of the memory zones is hardware dependent as not all
architectures define all zones, and requirements for DMA are different
for different platforms.
Nodes
=====
Many multi-processor machines are NUMA - Non-Uniform Memory Access -
systems. In such systems the memory is arranged into banks that have
different access latency depending on the "distance" from the
processor. Each bank is referred as `node` and for each node Linux
constructs an independent memory management subsystem. A node has it's
own set of zones, lists of free and used pages and various statistics
counters. You can find more details about NUMA in
:ref:`Documentation/vm/numa.rst <numa>` and in
:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst <numa_memory_policy>`.
Page cache
==========
The physical memory is volatile and the common case for getting data
into the memory is to read it from files. Whenever a file is read, the
data is put into the `page cache` to avoid expensive disk access on
the subsequent reads. Similarly, when one writes to a file, the data
is placed in the page cache and eventually gets into the backing
storage device. The written pages are marked as `dirty` and when Linux
decides to reuse them for other purposes, it makes sure to synchronize
the file contents on the device with the updated data.
Anonymous Memory
================
The `anonymous memory` or `anonymous mappings` represent memory that
is not backed by a filesystem. Such mappings are implicitly created
for program's stack and heap or by explicit calls to mmap(2) system
call. Usually, the anonymous mappings only define virtual memory areas
that the program is allowed to access. The read accesses will result
in creation of a page table entry that references a special physical
page filled with zeroes. When the program performs a write, regular
physical page will be allocated to hold the written data. The page
will be marked dirty and if the kernel will decide to repurpose it,
the dirty page will be swapped out.
Reclaim
=======
Throughout the system lifetime, a physical page can be used for storing
different types of data. It can be kernel internal data structures,
DMA'able buffers for device drivers use, data read from a filesystem,
memory allocated by user space processes etc.
Depending on the page usage it is treated differently by the Linux
memory management. The pages that can be freed at any time, either
because they cache the data available elsewhere, for instance, on a
hard disk, or because they can be swapped out, again, to the hard
disk, are called `reclaimable`. The most notable categories of the
reclaimable pages are page cache and anonymous memory.
In most cases, the pages holding internal kernel data and used as DMA
buffers cannot be repurposed, and they remain pinned until freed by
their user. Such pages are called `unreclaimable`. However, in certain
circumstances, even pages occupied with kernel data structures can be
reclaimed. For instance, in-memory caches of filesystem metadata can
be re-read from the storage device and therefore it is possible to
discard them from the main memory when system is under memory
pressure.
The process of freeing the reclaimable physical memory pages and
repurposing them is called (surprise!) `reclaim`. Linux can reclaim
pages either asynchronously or synchronously, depending on the state
of the system. When system is not loaded, most of the memory is free
and allocation request will be satisfied immediately from the free
pages supply. As the load increases, the amount of the free pages goes
down and when it reaches a certain threshold (high watermark), an
allocation request will awaken the ``kswapd`` daemon. It will
asynchronously scan memory pages and either just free them if the data
they contain is available elsewhere, or evict to the backing storage
device (remember those dirty pages?). As memory usage increases even
more and reaches another threshold - min watermark - an allocation
will trigger the `direct reclaim`. In this case allocation is stalled
until enough memory pages are reclaimed to satisfy the request.
Compaction
==========
As the system runs, tasks allocate and free the memory and it becomes
fragmented. Although with virtual memory it is possible to present
scattered physical pages as virtually contiguous range, sometimes it is
necessary to allocate large physically contiguous memory areas. Such
need may arise, for instance, when a device driver requires large
buffer for DMA, or when THP allocates a huge page. Memory `compaction`
addresses the fragmentation issue. This mechanism moves occupied pages
from the lower part of a memory zone to free pages in the upper part
of the zone. When a compaction scan is finished free pages are grouped
together at the beginning of the zone and allocations of large
physically contiguous areas become possible.
Like reclaim, the compaction may happen asynchronously in ``kcompactd``
daemon or synchronously as a result of memory allocation request.
OOM killer
==========
It may happen, that on a loaded machine memory will be exhausted. When
the kernel detects that the system runs out of memory (OOM) it invokes
`OOM killer`. Its mission is simple: all it has to do is to select a
task to sacrifice for the sake of the overall system health. The
selected task is killed in a hope that after it exits enough memory
will be freed to continue normal operation.

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.. _hugetlbpage:
=============
HugeTLB Pages
=============
Overview
========
The intent of this file is to give a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in
the Linux kernel. This support is built on top of multiple page size support
@ -18,53 +26,59 @@ First the Linux kernel needs to be built with the CONFIG_HUGETLBFS
automatically when CONFIG_HUGETLBFS is selected) configuration
options.
The /proc/meminfo file provides information about the total number of
The ``/proc/meminfo`` file provides information about the total number of
persistent hugetlb pages in the kernel's huge page pool. It also displays
default huge page size and information about the number of free, reserved
and surplus huge pages in the pool of huge pages of default size.
The huge page size is needed for generating the proper alignment and
size of the arguments to system calls that map huge page regions.
The output of "cat /proc/meminfo" will include lines like:
The output of ``cat /proc/meminfo`` will include lines like::
.....
HugePages_Total: uuu
HugePages_Free: vvv
HugePages_Rsvd: www
HugePages_Surp: xxx
Hugepagesize: yyy kB
Hugetlb: zzz kB
HugePages_Total: uuu
HugePages_Free: vvv
HugePages_Rsvd: www
HugePages_Surp: xxx
Hugepagesize: yyy kB
Hugetlb: zzz kB
where:
HugePages_Total is the size of the pool of huge pages.
HugePages_Free is the number of huge pages in the pool that are not yet
allocated.
HugePages_Rsvd is short for "reserved," and is the number of huge pages for
which a commitment to allocate from the pool has been made,
but no allocation has yet been made. Reserved huge pages
guarantee that an application will be able to allocate a
huge page from the pool of huge pages at fault time.
HugePages_Surp is short for "surplus," and is the number of huge pages in
the pool above the value in /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages. The
maximum number of surplus huge pages is controlled by
/proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages.
Hugepagesize is the default hugepage size (in Kb).
Hugetlb is the total amount of memory (in kB), consumed by huge
pages of all sizes.
If huge pages of different sizes are in use, this number
will exceed HugePages_Total * Hugepagesize. To get more
detailed information, please, refer to
/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages (described below).
HugePages_Total
is the size of the pool of huge pages.
HugePages_Free
is the number of huge pages in the pool that are not yet
allocated.
HugePages_Rsvd
is short for "reserved," and is the number of huge pages for
which a commitment to allocate from the pool has been made,
but no allocation has yet been made. Reserved huge pages
guarantee that an application will be able to allocate a
huge page from the pool of huge pages at fault time.
HugePages_Surp
is short for "surplus," and is the number of huge pages in
the pool above the value in ``/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages``. The
maximum number of surplus huge pages is controlled by
``/proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages``.
Hugepagesize
is the default hugepage size (in Kb).
Hugetlb
is the total amount of memory (in kB), consumed by huge
pages of all sizes.
If huge pages of different sizes are in use, this number
will exceed HugePages_Total \* Hugepagesize. To get more
detailed information, please, refer to
``/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages`` (described below).
/proc/filesystems should also show a filesystem of type "hugetlbfs" configured
in the kernel.
``/proc/filesystems`` should also show a filesystem of type "hugetlbfs"
configured in the kernel.
/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages indicates the current number of "persistent" huge
``/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages`` indicates the current number of "persistent" huge
pages in the kernel's huge page pool. "Persistent" huge pages will be
returned to the huge page pool when freed by a task. A user with root
privileges can dynamically allocate more or free some persistent huge pages
by increasing or decreasing the value of 'nr_hugepages'.
by increasing or decreasing the value of ``nr_hugepages``.
Pages that are used as huge pages are reserved inside the kernel and cannot
be used for other purposes. Huge pages cannot be swapped out under
@ -73,7 +87,7 @@ memory pressure.
Once a number of huge pages have been pre-allocated to the kernel huge page
pool, a user with appropriate privilege can use either the mmap system call
or shared memory system calls to use the huge pages. See the discussion of
Using Huge Pages, below.
:ref:`Using Huge Pages <using_huge_pages>`, below.
The administrator can allocate persistent huge pages on the kernel boot
command line by specifying the "hugepages=N" parameter, where 'N' = the
@ -86,10 +100,10 @@ with a huge page size selection parameter "hugepagesz=<size>". <size> must
be specified in bytes with optional scale suffix [kKmMgG]. The default huge
page size may be selected with the "default_hugepagesz=<size>" boot parameter.
When multiple huge page sizes are supported, /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
When multiple huge page sizes are supported, ``/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages``
indicates the current number of pre-allocated huge pages of the default size.
Thus, one can use the following command to dynamically allocate/deallocate
default sized persistent huge pages:
default sized persistent huge pages::
echo 20 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
@ -98,11 +112,12 @@ huge page pool to 20, allocating or freeing huge pages, as required.
On a NUMA platform, the kernel will attempt to distribute the huge page pool
over all the set of allowed nodes specified by the NUMA memory policy of the
task that modifies nr_hugepages. The default for the allowed nodes--when the
task that modifies ``nr_hugepages``. The default for the allowed nodes--when the
task has default memory policy--is all on-line nodes with memory. Allowed
nodes with insufficient available, contiguous memory for a huge page will be
silently skipped when allocating persistent huge pages. See the discussion
below of the interaction of task memory policy, cpusets and per node attributes
silently skipped when allocating persistent huge pages. See the
:ref:`discussion below <mem_policy_and_hp_alloc>`
of the interaction of task memory policy, cpusets and per node attributes
with the allocation and freeing of persistent huge pages.
The success or failure of huge page allocation depends on the amount of
@ -117,51 +132,52 @@ init files. This will enable the kernel to allocate huge pages early in
the boot process when the possibility of getting physical contiguous pages
is still very high. Administrators can verify the number of huge pages
actually allocated by checking the sysctl or meminfo. To check the per node
distribution of huge pages in a NUMA system, use:
distribution of huge pages in a NUMA system, use::
cat /sys/devices/system/node/node*/meminfo | fgrep Huge
/proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages specifies how large the pool of
huge pages can grow, if more huge pages than /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages are
``/proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages`` specifies how large the pool of
huge pages can grow, if more huge pages than ``/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages`` are
requested by applications. Writing any non-zero value into this file
indicates that the hugetlb subsystem is allowed to try to obtain that
number of "surplus" huge pages from the kernel's normal page pool, when the
persistent huge page pool is exhausted. As these surplus huge pages become
unused, they are freed back to the kernel's normal page pool.
When increasing the huge page pool size via nr_hugepages, any existing surplus
pages will first be promoted to persistent huge pages. Then, additional
When increasing the huge page pool size via ``nr_hugepages``, any existing
surplus pages will first be promoted to persistent huge pages. Then, additional
huge pages will be allocated, if necessary and if possible, to fulfill
the new persistent huge page pool size.
The administrator may shrink the pool of persistent huge pages for
the default huge page size by setting the nr_hugepages sysctl to a
the default huge page size by setting the ``nr_hugepages`` sysctl to a
smaller value. The kernel will attempt to balance the freeing of huge pages
across all nodes in the memory policy of the task modifying nr_hugepages.
across all nodes in the memory policy of the task modifying ``nr_hugepages``.
Any free huge pages on the selected nodes will be freed back to the kernel's
normal page pool.
Caveat: Shrinking the persistent huge page pool via nr_hugepages such that
Caveat: Shrinking the persistent huge page pool via ``nr_hugepages`` such that
it becomes less than the number of huge pages in use will convert the balance
of the in-use huge pages to surplus huge pages. This will occur even if
the number of surplus pages it would exceed the overcommit value. As long as
this condition holds--that is, until nr_hugepages+nr_overcommit_hugepages is
the number of surplus pages would exceed the overcommit value. As long as
this condition holds--that is, until ``nr_hugepages+nr_overcommit_hugepages`` is
increased sufficiently, or the surplus huge pages go out of use and are freed--
no more surplus huge pages will be allowed to be allocated.
With support for multiple huge page pools at run-time available, much of
the huge page userspace interface in /proc/sys/vm has been duplicated in sysfs.
The /proc interfaces discussed above have been retained for backwards
compatibility. The root huge page control directory in sysfs is:
the huge page userspace interface in ``/proc/sys/vm`` has been duplicated in
sysfs.
The ``/proc`` interfaces discussed above have been retained for backwards
compatibility. The root huge page control directory in sysfs is::
/sys/kernel/mm/hugepages
For each huge page size supported by the running kernel, a subdirectory
will exist, of the form:
will exist, of the form::
hugepages-${size}kB
Inside each of these directories, the same set of files will exist:
Inside each of these directories, the same set of files will exist::
nr_hugepages
nr_hugepages_mempolicy
@ -172,37 +188,39 @@ Inside each of these directories, the same set of files will exist:
which function as described above for the default huge page-sized case.
.. _mem_policy_and_hp_alloc:
Interaction of Task Memory Policy with Huge Page Allocation/Freeing
===================================================================
Whether huge pages are allocated and freed via the /proc interface or
the /sysfs interface using the nr_hugepages_mempolicy attribute, the NUMA
nodes from which huge pages are allocated or freed are controlled by the
NUMA memory policy of the task that modifies the nr_hugepages_mempolicy
sysctl or attribute. When the nr_hugepages attribute is used, mempolicy
Whether huge pages are allocated and freed via the ``/proc`` interface or
the ``/sysfs`` interface using the ``nr_hugepages_mempolicy`` attribute, the
NUMA nodes from which huge pages are allocated or freed are controlled by the
NUMA memory policy of the task that modifies the ``nr_hugepages_mempolicy``
sysctl or attribute. When the ``nr_hugepages`` attribute is used, mempolicy
is ignored.
The recommended method to allocate or free huge pages to/from the kernel
huge page pool, using the nr_hugepages example above, is:
huge page pool, using the ``nr_hugepages`` example above, is::
numactl --interleave <node-list> echo 20 \
>/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages_mempolicy
or, more succinctly:
or, more succinctly::
numactl -m <node-list> echo 20 >/proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages_mempolicy
This will allocate or free abs(20 - nr_hugepages) to or from the nodes
This will allocate or free ``abs(20 - nr_hugepages)`` to or from the nodes
specified in <node-list>, depending on whether number of persistent huge pages
is initially less than or greater than 20, respectively. No huge pages will be
allocated nor freed on any node not included in the specified <node-list>.
When adjusting the persistent hugepage count via nr_hugepages_mempolicy, any
When adjusting the persistent hugepage count via ``nr_hugepages_mempolicy``, any
memory policy mode--bind, preferred, local or interleave--may be used. The
resulting effect on persistent huge page allocation is as follows:
1) Regardless of mempolicy mode [see Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt],
#. Regardless of mempolicy mode [see
:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst <numa_memory_policy>`],
persistent huge pages will be distributed across the node or nodes
specified in the mempolicy as if "interleave" had been specified.
However, if a node in the policy does not contain sufficient contiguous
@ -212,7 +230,7 @@ resulting effect on persistent huge page allocation is as follows:
possibly, allocation of persistent huge pages on nodes not allowed by
the task's memory policy.
2) One or more nodes may be specified with the bind or interleave policy.
#. One or more nodes may be specified with the bind or interleave policy.
If more than one node is specified with the preferred policy, only the
lowest numeric id will be used. Local policy will select the node where
the task is running at the time the nodes_allowed mask is constructed.
@ -222,20 +240,20 @@ resulting effect on persistent huge page allocation is as follows:
indeterminate. Thus, local policy is not very useful for this purpose.
Any of the other mempolicy modes may be used to specify a single node.
3) The nodes allowed mask will be derived from any non-default task mempolicy,
#. The nodes allowed mask will be derived from any non-default task mempolicy,
whether this policy was set explicitly by the task itself or one of its
ancestors, such as numactl. This means that if the task is invoked from a
shell with non-default policy, that policy will be used. One can specify a
node list of "all" with numactl --interleave or --membind [-m] to achieve
interleaving over all nodes in the system or cpuset.
4) Any task mempolicy specified--e.g., using numactl--will be constrained by
#. Any task mempolicy specified--e.g., using numactl--will be constrained by
the resource limits of any cpuset in which the task runs. Thus, there will
be no way for a task with non-default policy running in a cpuset with a
subset of the system nodes to allocate huge pages outside the cpuset
without first moving to a cpuset that contains all of the desired nodes.
5) Boot-time huge page allocation attempts to distribute the requested number
#. Boot-time huge page allocation attempts to distribute the requested number
of huge pages over all on-lines nodes with memory.
Per Node Hugepages Attributes
@ -243,22 +261,22 @@ Per Node Hugepages Attributes
A subset of the contents of the root huge page control directory in sysfs,
described above, will be replicated under each the system device of each
NUMA node with memory in:
NUMA node with memory in::
/sys/devices/system/node/node[0-9]*/hugepages/
Under this directory, the subdirectory for each supported huge page size
contains the following attribute files:
contains the following attribute files::
nr_hugepages
free_hugepages
surplus_hugepages
The free_' and surplus_' attribute files are read-only. They return the number
The free\_' and surplus\_' attribute files are read-only. They return the number
of free and surplus [overcommitted] huge pages, respectively, on the parent
node.
The nr_hugepages attribute returns the total number of huge pages on the
The ``nr_hugepages`` attribute returns the total number of huge pages on the
specified node. When this attribute is written, the number of persistent huge
pages on the parent node will be adjusted to the specified value, if sufficient
resources exist, regardless of the task's mempolicy or cpuset constraints.
@ -267,43 +285,58 @@ Note that the number of overcommit and reserve pages remain global quantities,
as we don't know until fault time, when the faulting task's mempolicy is
applied, from which node the huge page allocation will be attempted.
.. _using_huge_pages:
Using Huge Pages
================
If the user applications are going to request huge pages using mmap system
call, then it is required that system administrator mount a file system of
type hugetlbfs:
type hugetlbfs::
mount -t hugetlbfs \
-o uid=<value>,gid=<value>,mode=<value>,pagesize=<value>,size=<value>,\
min_size=<value>,nr_inodes=<value> none /mnt/huge
This command mounts a (pseudo) filesystem of type hugetlbfs on the directory
/mnt/huge. Any files created on /mnt/huge uses huge pages. The uid and gid
options sets the owner and group of the root of the file system. By default
the uid and gid of the current process are taken. The mode option sets the
mode of root of file system to value & 01777. This value is given in octal.
By default the value 0755 is picked. If the platform supports multiple huge
page sizes, the pagesize option can be used to specify the huge page size and
associated pool. pagesize is specified in bytes. If pagesize is not specified
the platform's default huge page size and associated pool will be used. The
size option sets the maximum value of memory (huge pages) allowed for that
filesystem (/mnt/huge). The size option can be specified in bytes, or as a
percentage of the specified huge page pool (nr_hugepages). The size is
rounded down to HPAGE_SIZE boundary. The min_size option sets the minimum
value of memory (huge pages) allowed for the filesystem. min_size can be
specified in the same way as size, either bytes or a percentage of the
huge page pool. At mount time, the number of huge pages specified by
min_size are reserved for use by the filesystem. If there are not enough
free huge pages available, the mount will fail. As huge pages are allocated
to the filesystem and freed, the reserve count is adjusted so that the sum
of allocated and reserved huge pages is always at least min_size. The option
nr_inodes sets the maximum number of inodes that /mnt/huge can use. If the
size, min_size or nr_inodes option is not provided on command line then
no limits are set. For pagesize, size, min_size and nr_inodes options, you
can use [G|g]/[M|m]/[K|k] to represent giga/mega/kilo. For example, size=2K
has the same meaning as size=2048.
``/mnt/huge``. Any file created on ``/mnt/huge`` uses huge pages.
The ``uid`` and ``gid`` options sets the owner and group of the root of the
file system. By default the ``uid`` and ``gid`` of the current process
are taken.
The ``mode`` option sets the mode of root of file system to value & 01777.
This value is given in octal. By default the value 0755 is picked.
If the platform supports multiple huge page sizes, the ``pagesize`` option can
be used to specify the huge page size and associated pool. ``pagesize``
is specified in bytes. If ``pagesize`` is not specified the platform's
default huge page size and associated pool will be used.
The ``size`` option sets the maximum value of memory (huge pages) allowed
for that filesystem (``/mnt/huge``). The ``size`` option can be specified
in bytes, or as a percentage of the specified huge page pool (``nr_hugepages``).
The size is rounded down to HPAGE_SIZE boundary.
The ``min_size`` option sets the minimum value of memory (huge pages) allowed
for the filesystem. ``min_size`` can be specified in the same way as ``size``,
either bytes or a percentage of the huge page pool.
At mount time, the number of huge pages specified by ``min_size`` are reserved
for use by the filesystem.
If there are not enough free huge pages available, the mount will fail.
As huge pages are allocated to the filesystem and freed, the reserve count
is adjusted so that the sum of allocated and reserved huge pages is always
at least ``min_size``.
The option ``nr_inodes`` sets the maximum number of inodes that ``/mnt/huge``
can use.
If the ``size``, ``min_size`` or ``nr_inodes`` option is not provided on
command line then no limits are set.
For ``pagesize``, ``size``, ``min_size`` and ``nr_inodes`` options, you can
use [G|g]/[M|m]/[K|k] to represent giga/mega/kilo.
For example, size=2K has the same meaning as size=2048.
While read system calls are supported on files that reside on hugetlb
file systems, write system calls are not.
@ -313,12 +346,12 @@ used to change the file attributes on hugetlbfs.
Also, it is important to note that no such mount command is required if
applications are going to use only shmat/shmget system calls or mmap with
MAP_HUGETLB. For an example of how to use mmap with MAP_HUGETLB see map_hugetlb
below.
MAP_HUGETLB. For an example of how to use mmap with MAP_HUGETLB see
:ref:`map_hugetlb <map_hugetlb>` below.
Users who wish to use hugetlb memory via shared memory segment should be a
member of a supplementary group and system admin needs to configure that gid
into /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group. It is possible for same or different
Users who wish to use hugetlb memory via shared memory segment should be
members of a supplementary group and system admin needs to configure that gid
into ``/proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group``. It is possible for same or different
applications to use any combination of mmaps and shm* calls, though the mount of
filesystem will be required for using mmap calls without MAP_HUGETLB.
@ -332,20 +365,18 @@ a hugetlb page and the length is smaller than the hugepage size.
Examples
========
1) map_hugetlb: see tools/testing/selftests/vm/map_hugetlb.c
.. _map_hugetlb:
2) hugepage-shm: see tools/testing/selftests/vm/hugepage-shm.c
``map_hugetlb``
see tools/testing/selftests/vm/map_hugetlb.c
3) hugepage-mmap: see tools/testing/selftests/vm/hugepage-mmap.c
``hugepage-shm``
see tools/testing/selftests/vm/hugepage-shm.c
4) The libhugetlbfs (https://github.com/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs) library
provides a wide range of userspace tools to help with huge page usability,
environment setup, and control.
``hugepage-mmap``
see tools/testing/selftests/vm/hugepage-mmap.c
Kernel development regression testing
=====================================
The `libhugetlbfs`_ library provides a wide range of userspace tools
to help with huge page usability, environment setup, and control.
The most complete set of hugetlb tests are in the libhugetlbfs repository.
If you modify any hugetlb related code, use the libhugetlbfs test suite
to check for regressions. In addition, if you add any new hugetlb
functionality, please add appropriate tests to libhugetlbfs.
.. _libhugetlbfs: https://github.com/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs

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MOTIVATION
.. _idle_page_tracking:
==================
Idle Page Tracking
==================
Motivation
==========
The idle page tracking feature allows to track which memory pages are being
accessed by a workload and which are idle. This information can be useful for
@ -8,10 +15,14 @@ or deciding where to place the workload within a compute cluster.
It is enabled by CONFIG_IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING=y.
USER API
.. _user_api:
The idle page tracking API is located at /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle. Currently,
it consists of the only read-write file, /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap.
User API
========
The idle page tracking API is located at ``/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle``.
Currently, it consists of the only read-write file,
``/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap``.
The file implements a bitmap where each bit corresponds to a memory page. The
bitmap is represented by an array of 8-byte integers, and the page at PFN #i is
@ -19,8 +30,9 @@ mapped to bit #i%64 of array element #i/64, byte order is native. When a bit is
set, the corresponding page is idle.
A page is considered idle if it has not been accessed since it was marked idle
(for more details on what "accessed" actually means see the IMPLEMENTATION
DETAILS section). To mark a page idle one has to set the bit corresponding to
(for more details on what "accessed" actually means see the :ref:`Implementation
Details <impl_details>` section).
To mark a page idle one has to set the bit corresponding to
the page by writing to the file. A value written to the file is OR-ed with the
current bitmap value.
@ -30,9 +42,9 @@ page types (e.g. SLAB pages) an attempt to mark a page idle is silently ignored,
and hence such pages are never reported idle.
For huge pages the idle flag is set only on the head page, so one has to read
/proc/kpageflags in order to correctly count idle huge pages.
``/proc/kpageflags`` in order to correctly count idle huge pages.
Reading from or writing to /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap will return
Reading from or writing to ``/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap`` will return
-EINVAL if you are not starting the read/write on an 8-byte boundary, or
if the size of the read/write is not a multiple of 8 bytes. Writing to
this file beyond max PFN will return -ENXIO.
@ -41,21 +53,26 @@ That said, in order to estimate the amount of pages that are not used by a
workload one should:
1. Mark all the workload's pages as idle by setting corresponding bits in
/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap. The pages can be found by reading
/proc/pid/pagemap if the workload is represented by a process, or by
filtering out alien pages using /proc/kpagecgroup in case the workload is
placed in a memory cgroup.
``/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap``. The pages can be found by reading
``/proc/pid/pagemap`` if the workload is represented by a process, or by
filtering out alien pages using ``/proc/kpagecgroup`` in case the workload
is placed in a memory cgroup.
2. Wait until the workload accesses its working set.
3. Read /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap and count the number of bits set. If
one wants to ignore certain types of pages, e.g. mlocked pages since they
are not reclaimable, he or she can filter them out using /proc/kpageflags.
3. Read ``/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap`` and count the number of bits set.
If one wants to ignore certain types of pages, e.g. mlocked pages since they
are not reclaimable, he or she can filter them out using
``/proc/kpageflags``.
See Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt for more information about /proc/pid/pagemap,
/proc/kpageflags, and /proc/kpagecgroup.
See :ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst <pagemap>` for more
information about ``/proc/pid/pagemap``, ``/proc/kpageflags``, and
``/proc/kpagecgroup``.
IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
.. _impl_details:
Implementation Details
======================
The kernel internally keeps track of accesses to user memory pages in order to
reclaim unreferenced pages first on memory shortage conditions. A page is
@ -77,7 +94,8 @@ When a dirty page is written to swap or disk as a result of memory reclaim or
exceeding the dirty memory limit, it is not marked referenced.
The idle memory tracking feature adds a new page flag, the Idle flag. This flag
is set manually, by writing to /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap (see the USER API
is set manually, by writing to ``/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap`` (see the
:ref:`User API <user_api>`
section), and cleared automatically whenever a page is referenced as defined
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=================
Memory Management
=================
Linux memory management subsystem is responsible, as the name implies,
for managing the memory in the system. This includes implemnetation of
virtual memory and demand paging, memory allocation both for kernel
internal structures and user space programms, mapping of files into
processes address space and many other cool things.
Linux memory management is a complex system with many configurable
settings. Most of these settings are available via ``/proc``
filesystem and can be quired and adjusted using ``sysctl``. These APIs
are described in Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt and in `man 5 proc`_.
.. _man 5 proc: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html
Linux memory management has its own jargon and if you are not yet
familiar with it, consider reading
:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst <mm_concepts>`.
Here we document in detail how to interact with various mechanisms in
the Linux memory management.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
concepts
hugetlbpage
idle_page_tracking
ksm
numa_memory_policy
pagemap
soft-dirty
transhuge
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.. _admin_guide_ksm:
=======================
Kernel Samepage Merging
=======================
Overview
========
KSM is a memory-saving de-duplication feature, enabled by CONFIG_KSM=y,
added to the Linux kernel in 2.6.32. See ``mm/ksm.c`` for its implementation,
and http://lwn.net/Articles/306704/ and http://lwn.net/Articles/330589/
KSM was originally developed for use with KVM (where it was known as
Kernel Shared Memory), to fit more virtual machines into physical memory,
by sharing the data common between them. But it can be useful to any
application which generates many instances of the same data.
The KSM daemon ksmd periodically scans those areas of user memory
which have been registered with it, looking for pages of identical
content which can be replaced by a single write-protected page (which
is automatically copied if a process later wants to update its
content). The amount of pages that KSM daemon scans in a single pass
and the time between the passes are configured using :ref:`sysfs
intraface <ksm_sysfs>`
KSM only merges anonymous (private) pages, never pagecache (file) pages.
KSM's merged pages were originally locked into kernel memory, but can now
be swapped out just like other user pages (but sharing is broken when they
are swapped back in: ksmd must rediscover their identity and merge again).
Controlling KSM with madvise
============================
KSM only operates on those areas of address space which an application
has advised to be likely candidates for merging, by using the madvise(2)
system call::
int madvise(addr, length, MADV_MERGEABLE)
The app may call
::
int madvise(addr, length, MADV_UNMERGEABLE)
to cancel that advice and restore unshared pages: whereupon KSM
unmerges whatever it merged in that range. Note: this unmerging call
may suddenly require more memory than is available - possibly failing
with EAGAIN, but more probably arousing the Out-Of-Memory killer.
If KSM is not configured into the running kernel, madvise MADV_MERGEABLE
and MADV_UNMERGEABLE simply fail with EINVAL. If the running kernel was
built with CONFIG_KSM=y, those calls will normally succeed: even if the
the KSM daemon is not currently running, MADV_MERGEABLE still registers
the range for whenever the KSM daemon is started; even if the range
cannot contain any pages which KSM could actually merge; even if
MADV_UNMERGEABLE is applied to a range which was never MADV_MERGEABLE.
If a region of memory must be split into at least one new MADV_MERGEABLE
or MADV_UNMERGEABLE region, the madvise may return ENOMEM if the process
will exceed ``vm.max_map_count`` (see Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt).
Like other madvise calls, they are intended for use on mapped areas of
the user address space: they will report ENOMEM if the specified range
includes unmapped gaps (though working on the intervening mapped areas),
and might fail with EAGAIN if not enough memory for internal structures.
Applications should be considerate in their use of MADV_MERGEABLE,
restricting its use to areas likely to benefit. KSM's scans may use a lot
of processing power: some installations will disable KSM for that reason.
.. _ksm_sysfs:
KSM daemon sysfs interface
==========================
The KSM daemon is controlled by sysfs files in ``/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/``,
readable by all but writable only by root:
pages_to_scan
how many pages to scan before ksmd goes to sleep
e.g. ``echo 100 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_to_scan``.
Default: 100 (chosen for demonstration purposes)
sleep_millisecs
how many milliseconds ksmd should sleep before next scan
e.g. ``echo 20 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/sleep_millisecs``
Default: 20 (chosen for demonstration purposes)
merge_across_nodes
specifies if pages from different NUMA nodes can be merged.
When set to 0, ksm merges only pages which physically reside
in the memory area of same NUMA node. That brings lower
latency to access of shared pages. Systems with more nodes, at
significant NUMA distances, are likely to benefit from the
lower latency of setting 0. Smaller systems, which need to
minimize memory usage, are likely to benefit from the greater
sharing of setting 1 (default). You may wish to compare how
your system performs under each setting, before deciding on
which to use. ``merge_across_nodes`` setting can be changed only
when there are no ksm shared pages in the system: set run 2 to
unmerge pages first, then to 1 after changing
``merge_across_nodes``, to remerge according to the new setting.
Default: 1 (merging across nodes as in earlier releases)
run
* set to 0 to stop ksmd from running but keep merged pages,
* set to 1 to run ksmd e.g. ``echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run``,
* set to 2 to stop ksmd and unmerge all pages currently merged, but
leave mergeable areas registered for next run.
Default: 0 (must be changed to 1 to activate KSM, except if
CONFIG_SYSFS is disabled)
use_zero_pages
specifies whether empty pages (i.e. allocated pages that only
contain zeroes) should be treated specially. When set to 1,
empty pages are merged with the kernel zero page(s) instead of
with each other as it would happen normally. This can improve
the performance on architectures with coloured zero pages,
depending on the workload. Care should be taken when enabling
this setting, as it can potentially degrade the performance of
KSM for some workloads, for example if the checksums of pages
candidate for merging match the checksum of an empty
page. This setting can be changed at any time, it is only
effective for pages merged after the change.
Default: 0 (normal KSM behaviour as in earlier releases)
max_page_sharing
Maximum sharing allowed for each KSM page. This enforces a
deduplication limit to avoid high latency for virtual memory
operations that involve traversal of the virtual mappings that
share the KSM page. The minimum value is 2 as a newly created
KSM page will have at least two sharers. The higher this value
the faster KSM will merge the memory and the higher the
deduplication factor will be, but the slower the worst case
virtual mappings traversal could be for any given KSM
page. Slowing down this traversal means there will be higher
latency for certain virtual memory operations happening during
swapping, compaction, NUMA balancing and page migration, in
turn decreasing responsiveness for the caller of those virtual
memory operations. The scheduler latency of other tasks not
involved with the VM operations doing the virtual mappings
traversal is not affected by this parameter as these
traversals are always schedule friendly themselves.
stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs
specifies how frequently KSM checks the metadata of the pages
that hit the deduplication limit for stale information.
Smaller milllisecs values will free up the KSM metadata with
lower latency, but they will make ksmd use more CPU during the
scan. It's a noop if not a single KSM page hit the
``max_page_sharing`` yet.
The effectiveness of KSM and MADV_MERGEABLE is shown in ``/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/``:
pages_shared
how many shared pages are being used
pages_sharing
how many more sites are sharing them i.e. how much saved
pages_unshared
how many pages unique but repeatedly checked for merging
pages_volatile
how many pages changing too fast to be placed in a tree
full_scans
how many times all mergeable areas have been scanned
stable_node_chains
the number of KSM pages that hit the ``max_page_sharing`` limit
stable_node_dups
number of duplicated KSM pages
A high ratio of ``pages_sharing`` to ``pages_shared`` indicates good
sharing, but a high ratio of ``pages_unshared`` to ``pages_sharing``
indicates wasted effort. ``pages_volatile`` embraces several
different kinds of activity, but a high proportion there would also
indicate poor use of madvise MADV_MERGEABLE.
The maximum possible ``pages_sharing/pages_shared`` ratio is limited by the
``max_page_sharing`` tunable. To increase the ratio ``max_page_sharing`` must
be increased accordingly.
--
Izik Eidus,
Hugh Dickins, 17 Nov 2009

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.. _numa_memory_policy:
==================
NUMA Memory Policy
==================
What is NUMA Memory Policy?
============================
In the Linux kernel, "memory policy" determines from which node the kernel will
allocate memory in a NUMA system or in an emulated NUMA system. Linux has
supported platforms with Non-Uniform Memory Access architectures since 2.4.?.
The current memory policy support was added to Linux 2.6 around May 2004. This
document attempts to describe the concepts and APIs of the 2.6 memory policy
support.
Memory policies should not be confused with cpusets
(``Documentation/cgroup-v1/cpusets.txt``)
which is an administrative mechanism for restricting the nodes from which
memory may be allocated by a set of processes. Memory policies are a
programming interface that a NUMA-aware application can take advantage of. When
both cpusets and policies are applied to a task, the restrictions of the cpuset
takes priority. See :ref:`Memory Policies and cpusets <mem_pol_and_cpusets>`
below for more details.
Memory Policy Concepts
======================
Scope of Memory Policies
------------------------
The Linux kernel supports _scopes_ of memory policy, described here from
most general to most specific:
System Default Policy
this policy is "hard coded" into the kernel. It is the policy
that governs all page allocations that aren't controlled by
one of the more specific policy scopes discussed below. When
the system is "up and running", the system default policy will
use "local allocation" described below. However, during boot
up, the system default policy will be set to interleave
allocations across all nodes with "sufficient" memory, so as
not to overload the initial boot node with boot-time
allocations.
Task/Process Policy
this is an optional, per-task policy. When defined for a
specific task, this policy controls all page allocations made
by or on behalf of the task that aren't controlled by a more
specific scope. If a task does not define a task policy, then
all page allocations that would have been controlled by the
task policy "fall back" to the System Default Policy.
The task policy applies to the entire address space of a task. Thus,
it is inheritable, and indeed is inherited, across both fork()
[clone() w/o the CLONE_VM flag] and exec*(). This allows a parent task
to establish the task policy for a child task exec()'d from an
executable image that has no awareness of memory policy. See the
:ref:`Memory Policy APIs <memory_policy_apis>` section,
below, for an overview of the system call
that a task may use to set/change its task/process policy.
In a multi-threaded task, task policies apply only to the thread
[Linux kernel task] that installs the policy and any threads
subsequently created by that thread. Any sibling threads existing
at the time a new task policy is installed retain their current
policy.
A task policy applies only to pages allocated after the policy is
installed. Any pages already faulted in by the task when the task
changes its task policy remain where they were allocated based on
the policy at the time they were allocated.
.. _vma_policy:
VMA Policy
A "VMA" or "Virtual Memory Area" refers to a range of a task's
virtual address space. A task may define a specific policy for a range
of its virtual address space. See the
:ref:`Memory Policy APIs <memory_policy_apis>` section,
below, for an overview of the mbind() system call used to set a VMA
policy.
A VMA policy will govern the allocation of pages that back
this region of the address space. Any regions of the task's
address space that don't have an explicit VMA policy will fall
back to the task policy, which may itself fall back to the
System Default Policy.
VMA policies have a few complicating details:
* VMA policy applies ONLY to anonymous pages. These include
pages allocated for anonymous segments, such as the task
stack and heap, and any regions of the address space
mmap()ed with the MAP_ANONYMOUS flag. If a VMA policy is
applied to a file mapping, it will be ignored if the mapping
used the MAP_SHARED flag. If the file mapping used the
MAP_PRIVATE flag, the VMA policy will only be applied when
an anonymous page is allocated on an attempt to write to the
mapping-- i.e., at Copy-On-Write.
* VMA policies are shared between all tasks that share a
virtual address space--a.k.a. threads--independent of when
the policy is installed; and they are inherited across
fork(). However, because VMA policies refer to a specific
region of a task's address space, and because the address
space is discarded and recreated on exec*(), VMA policies
are NOT inheritable across exec(). Thus, only NUMA-aware
applications may use VMA policies.
* A task may install a new VMA policy on a sub-range of a
previously mmap()ed region. When this happens, Linux splits
the existing virtual memory area into 2 or 3 VMAs, each with
it's own policy.
* By default, VMA policy applies only to pages allocated after
the policy is installed. Any pages already faulted into the
VMA range remain where they were allocated based on the
policy at the time they were allocated. However, since
2.6.16, Linux supports page migration via the mbind() system
call, so that page contents can be moved to match a newly
installed policy.
Shared Policy
Conceptually, shared policies apply to "memory objects" mapped
shared into one or more tasks' distinct address spaces. An
application installs shared policies the same way as VMA
policies--using the mbind() system call specifying a range of
virtual addresses that map the shared object. However, unlike
VMA policies, which can be considered to be an attribute of a
range of a task's address space, shared policies apply
directly to the shared object. Thus, all tasks that attach to
the object share the policy, and all pages allocated for the
shared object, by any task, will obey the shared policy.
As of 2.6.22, only shared memory segments, created by shmget() or
mmap(MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_SHARED), support shared policy. When shared
policy support was added to Linux, the associated data structures were
added to hugetlbfs shmem segments. At the time, hugetlbfs did not
support allocation at fault time--a.k.a lazy allocation--so hugetlbfs
shmem segments were never "hooked up" to the shared policy support.
Although hugetlbfs segments now support lazy allocation, their support
for shared policy has not been completed.
As mentioned above in :ref:`VMA policies <vma_policy>` section,
allocations of page cache pages for regular files mmap()ed
with MAP_SHARED ignore any VMA policy installed on the virtual
address range backed by the shared file mapping. Rather,
shared page cache pages, including pages backing private
mappings that have not yet been written by the task, follow
task policy, if any, else System Default Policy.
The shared policy infrastructure supports different policies on subset
ranges of the shared object. However, Linux still splits the VMA of
the task that installs the policy for each range of distinct policy.
Thus, different tasks that attach to a shared memory segment can have
different VMA configurations mapping that one shared object. This
can be seen by examining the /proc/<pid>/numa_maps of tasks sharing
a shared memory region, when one task has installed shared policy on
one or more ranges of the region.
Components of Memory Policies
-----------------------------
A NUMA memory policy consists of a "mode", optional mode flags, and
an optional set of nodes. The mode determines the behavior of the
policy, the optional mode flags determine the behavior of the mode,
and the optional set of nodes can be viewed as the arguments to the
policy behavior.
Internally, memory policies are implemented by a reference counted
structure, struct mempolicy. Details of this structure will be
discussed in context, below, as required to explain the behavior.
NUMA memory policy supports the following 4 behavioral modes:
Default Mode--MPOL_DEFAULT
This mode is only used in the memory policy APIs. Internally,
MPOL_DEFAULT is converted to the NULL memory policy in all
policy scopes. Any existing non-default policy will simply be
removed when MPOL_DEFAULT is specified. As a result,
MPOL_DEFAULT means "fall back to the next most specific policy
scope."
For example, a NULL or default task policy will fall back to the
system default policy. A NULL or default vma policy will fall
back to the task policy.
When specified in one of the memory policy APIs, the Default mode
does not use the optional set of nodes.
It is an error for the set of nodes specified for this policy to
be non-empty.
MPOL_BIND
This mode specifies that memory must come from the set of
nodes specified by the policy. Memory will be allocated from
the node in the set with sufficient free memory that is
closest to the node where the allocation takes place.
MPOL_PREFERRED
This mode specifies that the allocation should be attempted
from the single node specified in the policy. If that
allocation fails, the kernel will search other nodes, in order
of increasing distance from the preferred node based on
information provided by the platform firmware.
Internally, the Preferred policy uses a single node--the
preferred_node member of struct mempolicy. When the internal
mode flag MPOL_F_LOCAL is set, the preferred_node is ignored
and the policy is interpreted as local allocation. "Local"
allocation policy can be viewed as a Preferred policy that
starts at the node containing the cpu where the allocation
takes place.
It is possible for the user to specify that local allocation
is always preferred by passing an empty nodemask with this
mode. If an empty nodemask is passed, the policy cannot use
the MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES or MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES flags
described below.
MPOL_INTERLEAVED
This mode specifies that page allocations be interleaved, on a
page granularity, across the nodes specified in the policy.
This mode also behaves slightly differently, based on the
context where it is used:
For allocation of anonymous pages and shared memory pages,
Interleave mode indexes the set of nodes specified by the
policy using the page offset of the faulting address into the
segment [VMA] containing the address modulo the number of
nodes specified by the policy. It then attempts to allocate a
page, starting at the selected node, as if the node had been
specified by a Preferred policy or had been selected by a
local allocation. That is, allocation will follow the per
node zonelist.
For allocation of page cache pages, Interleave mode indexes
the set of nodes specified by the policy using a node counter
maintained per task. This counter wraps around to the lowest
specified node after it reaches the highest specified node.
This will tend to spread the pages out over the nodes
specified by the policy based on the order in which they are
allocated, rather than based on any page offset into an
address range or file. During system boot up, the temporary
interleaved system default policy works in this mode.
NUMA memory policy supports the following optional mode flags:
MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
This flag specifies that the nodemask passed by
the user should not be remapped if the task or VMA's set of allowed
nodes changes after the memory policy has been defined.
Without this flag, any time a mempolicy is rebound because of a
change in the set of allowed nodes, the node (Preferred) or
nodemask (Bind, Interleave) is remapped to the new set of
allowed nodes. This may result in nodes being used that were
previously undesired.
With this flag, if the user-specified nodes overlap with the
nodes allowed by the task's cpuset, then the memory policy is
applied to their intersection. If the two sets of nodes do not
overlap, the Default policy is used.
For example, consider a task that is attached to a cpuset with
mems 1-3 that sets an Interleave policy over the same set. If
the cpuset's mems change to 3-5, the Interleave will now occur
over nodes 3, 4, and 5. With this flag, however, since only node
3 is allowed from the user's nodemask, the "interleave" only
occurs over that node. If no nodes from the user's nodemask are
now allowed, the Default behavior is used.
MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES cannot be combined with the
MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES flag. It also cannot be used for
MPOL_PREFERRED policies that were created with an empty nodemask
(local allocation).
MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES
This flag specifies that the nodemask passed
by the user will be mapped relative to the set of the task or VMA's
set of allowed nodes. The kernel stores the user-passed nodemask,
and if the allowed nodes changes, then that original nodemask will
be remapped relative to the new set of allowed nodes.
Without this flag (and without MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES), anytime a
mempolicy is rebound because of a change in the set of allowed
nodes, the node (Preferred) or nodemask (Bind, Interleave) is
remapped to the new set of allowed nodes. That remap may not
preserve the relative nature of the user's passed nodemask to its
set of allowed nodes upon successive rebinds: a nodemask of
1,3,5 may be remapped to 7-9 and then to 1-3 if the set of
allowed nodes is restored to its original state.
With this flag, the remap is done so that the node numbers from
the user's passed nodemask are relative to the set of allowed
nodes. In other words, if nodes 0, 2, and 4 are set in the user's
nodemask, the policy will be effected over the first (and in the
Bind or Interleave case, the third and fifth) nodes in the set of
allowed nodes. The nodemask passed by the user represents nodes
relative to task or VMA's set of allowed nodes.
If the user's nodemask includes nodes that are outside the range
of the new set of allowed nodes (for example, node 5 is set in
the user's nodemask when the set of allowed nodes is only 0-3),
then the remap wraps around to the beginning of the nodemask and,
if not already set, sets the node in the mempolicy nodemask.
For example, consider a task that is attached to a cpuset with
mems 2-5 that sets an Interleave policy over the same set with
MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES. If the cpuset's mems change to 3-7, the
interleave now occurs over nodes 3,5-7. If the cpuset's mems
then change to 0,2-3,5, then the interleave occurs over nodes
0,2-3,5.
Thanks to the consistent remapping, applications preparing
nodemasks to specify memory policies using this flag should
disregard their current, actual cpuset imposed memory placement
and prepare the nodemask as if they were always located on
memory nodes 0 to N-1, where N is the number of memory nodes the
policy is intended to manage. Let the kernel then remap to the
set of memory nodes allowed by the task's cpuset, as that may
change over time.
MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES cannot be combined with the
MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag. It also cannot be used for
MPOL_PREFERRED policies that were created with an empty nodemask
(local allocation).
Memory Policy Reference Counting
================================
To resolve use/free races, struct mempolicy contains an atomic reference
count field. Internal interfaces, mpol_get()/mpol_put() increment and
decrement this reference count, respectively. mpol_put() will only free
the structure back to the mempolicy kmem cache when the reference count
goes to zero.
When a new memory policy is allocated, its reference count is initialized
to '1', representing the reference held by the task that is installing the
new policy. When a pointer to a memory policy structure is stored in another
structure, another reference is added, as the task's reference will be dropped
on completion of the policy installation.
During run-time "usage" of the policy, we attempt to minimize atomic operations
on the reference count, as this can lead to cache lines bouncing between cpus
and NUMA nodes. "Usage" here means one of the following:
1) querying of the policy, either by the task itself [using the get_mempolicy()
API discussed below] or by another task using the /proc/<pid>/numa_maps
interface.
2) examination of the policy to determine the policy mode and associated node
or node lists, if any, for page allocation. This is considered a "hot
path". Note that for MPOL_BIND, the "usage" extends across the entire
allocation process, which may sleep during page reclaimation, because the
BIND policy nodemask is used, by reference, to filter ineligible nodes.
We can avoid taking an extra reference during the usages listed above as
follows:
1) we never need to get/free the system default policy as this is never
changed nor freed, once the system is up and running.
2) for querying the policy, we do not need to take an extra reference on the
target task's task policy nor vma policies because we always acquire the
task's mm's mmap_sem for read during the query. The set_mempolicy() and
mbind() APIs [see below] always acquire the mmap_sem for write when
installing or replacing task or vma policies. Thus, there is no possibility
of a task or thread freeing a policy while another task or thread is
querying it.
3) Page allocation usage of task or vma policy occurs in the fault path where
we hold them mmap_sem for read. Again, because replacing the task or vma
policy requires that the mmap_sem be held for write, the policy can't be
freed out from under us while we're using it for page allocation.
4) Shared policies require special consideration. One task can replace a
shared memory policy while another task, with a distinct mmap_sem, is
querying or allocating a page based on the policy. To resolve this
potential race, the shared policy infrastructure adds an extra reference
to the shared policy during lookup while holding a spin lock on the shared
policy management structure. This requires that we drop this extra
reference when we're finished "using" the policy. We must drop the
extra reference on shared policies in the same query/allocation paths
used for non-shared policies. For this reason, shared policies are marked
as such, and the extra reference is dropped "conditionally"--i.e., only
for shared policies.
Because of this extra reference counting, and because we must lookup
shared policies in a tree structure under spinlock, shared policies are
more expensive to use in the page allocation path. This is especially
true for shared policies on shared memory regions shared by tasks running
on different NUMA nodes. This extra overhead can be avoided by always
falling back to task or system default policy for shared memory regions,
or by prefaulting the entire shared memory region into memory and locking
it down. However, this might not be appropriate for all applications.
.. _memory_policy_apis:
Memory Policy APIs
==================
Linux supports 3 system calls for controlling memory policy. These APIS
always affect only the calling task, the calling task's address space, or
some shared object mapped into the calling task's address space.
.. note::
the headers that define these APIs and the parameter data types for
user space applications reside in a package that is not part of the
Linux kernel. The kernel system call interfaces, with the 'sys\_'
prefix, are defined in <linux/syscalls.h>; the mode and flag
definitions are defined in <linux/mempolicy.h>.
Set [Task] Memory Policy::
long set_mempolicy(int mode, const unsigned long *nmask,
unsigned long maxnode);
Set's the calling task's "task/process memory policy" to mode
specified by the 'mode' argument and the set of nodes defined by
'nmask'. 'nmask' points to a bit mask of node ids containing at least
'maxnode' ids. Optional mode flags may be passed by combining the
'mode' argument with the flag (for example: MPOL_INTERLEAVE |
MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES).
See the set_mempolicy(2) man page for more details
Get [Task] Memory Policy or Related Information::
long get_mempolicy(int *mode,
const unsigned long *nmask, unsigned long maxnode,
void *addr, int flags);
Queries the "task/process memory policy" of the calling task, or the
policy or location of a specified virtual address, depending on the
'flags' argument.
See the get_mempolicy(2) man page for more details
Install VMA/Shared Policy for a Range of Task's Address Space::
long mbind(void *start, unsigned long len, int mode,
const unsigned long *nmask, unsigned long maxnode,
unsigned flags);
mbind() installs the policy specified by (mode, nmask, maxnodes) as a
VMA policy for the range of the calling task's address space specified
by the 'start' and 'len' arguments. Additional actions may be
requested via the 'flags' argument.
See the mbind(2) man page for more details.
Memory Policy Command Line Interface
====================================
Although not strictly part of the Linux implementation of memory policy,
a command line tool, numactl(8), exists that allows one to:
+ set the task policy for a specified program via set_mempolicy(2), fork(2) and
exec(2)
+ set the shared policy for a shared memory segment via mbind(2)
The numactl(8) tool is packaged with the run-time version of the library
containing the memory policy system call wrappers. Some distributions
package the headers and compile-time libraries in a separate development
package.
.. _mem_pol_and_cpusets:
Memory Policies and cpusets
===========================
Memory policies work within cpusets as described above. For memory policies
that require a node or set of nodes, the nodes are restricted to the set of
nodes whose memories are allowed by the cpuset constraints. If the nodemask
specified for the policy contains nodes that are not allowed by the cpuset and
MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES is not used, the intersection of the set of nodes
specified for the policy and the set of nodes with memory is used. If the
result is the empty set, the policy is considered invalid and cannot be
installed. If MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES is used, the policy's nodes are mapped
onto and folded into the task's set of allowed nodes as previously described.
The interaction of memory policies and cpusets can be problematic when tasks
in two cpusets share access to a memory region, such as shared memory segments
created by shmget() of mmap() with the MAP_ANONYMOUS and MAP_SHARED flags, and
any of the tasks install shared policy on the region, only nodes whose
memories are allowed in both cpusets may be used in the policies. Obtaining
this information requires "stepping outside" the memory policy APIs to use the
cpuset information and requires that one know in what cpusets other task might
be attaching to the shared region. Furthermore, if the cpusets' allowed
memory sets are disjoint, "local" allocation is the only valid policy.

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pagemap, from the userspace perspective
---------------------------------------
.. _pagemap:
=============================
Examining Process Page Tables
=============================
pagemap is a new (as of 2.6.25) set of interfaces in the kernel that allow
userspace programs to examine the page tables and related information by
reading files in /proc.
reading files in ``/proc``.
There are four components to pagemap:
* /proc/pid/pagemap. This file lets a userspace process find out which
* ``/proc/pid/pagemap``. This file lets a userspace process find out which
physical frame each virtual page is mapped to. It contains one 64-bit
value for each virtual page, containing the following data (from
fs/proc/task_mmu.c, above pagemap_read):
``fs/proc/task_mmu.c``, above pagemap_read):
* Bits 0-54 page frame number (PFN) if present
* Bits 0-4 swap type if swapped
* Bits 5-54 swap offset if swapped
* Bit 55 pte is soft-dirty (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt)
* Bit 55 pte is soft-dirty (see
:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst <soft_dirty>`)
* Bit 56 page exclusively mapped (since 4.2)
* Bits 57-60 zero
* Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon (since 3.5)
@ -33,28 +37,28 @@ There are four components to pagemap:
precisely which pages are mapped (or in swap) and comparing mapped
pages between processes.
Efficient users of this interface will use /proc/pid/maps to
Efficient users of this interface will use ``/proc/pid/maps`` to
determine which areas of memory are actually mapped and llseek to
skip over unmapped regions.
* /proc/kpagecount. This file contains a 64-bit count of the number of
* ``/proc/kpagecount``. This file contains a 64-bit count of the number of
times each page is mapped, indexed by PFN.
* /proc/kpageflags. This file contains a 64-bit set of flags for each
* ``/proc/kpageflags``. This file contains a 64-bit set of flags for each
page, indexed by PFN.
The flags are (from fs/proc/page.c, above kpageflags_read):
The flags are (from ``fs/proc/page.c``, above kpageflags_read):
0. LOCKED
1. ERROR
2. REFERENCED
3. UPTODATE
4. DIRTY
5. LRU
6. ACTIVE
7. SLAB
8. WRITEBACK
9. RECLAIM
0. LOCKED
1. ERROR
2. REFERENCED
3. UPTODATE
4. DIRTY
5. LRU
6. ACTIVE
7. SLAB
8. WRITEBACK
9. RECLAIM
10. BUDDY
11. MMAP
12. ANON
@ -72,98 +76,111 @@ There are four components to pagemap:
24. ZERO_PAGE
25. IDLE
* /proc/kpagecgroup. This file contains a 64-bit inode number of the
* ``/proc/kpagecgroup``. This file contains a 64-bit inode number of the
memory cgroup each page is charged to, indexed by PFN. Only available when
CONFIG_MEMCG is set.
Short descriptions to the page flags:
Short descriptions to the page flags
====================================
0. LOCKED
page is being locked for exclusive access, eg. by undergoing read/write IO
7. SLAB
page is managed by the SLAB/SLOB/SLUB/SLQB kernel memory allocator
When compound page is used, SLUB/SLQB will only set this flag on the head
page; SLOB will not flag it at all.
10. BUDDY
0 - LOCKED
page is being locked for exclusive access, e.g. by undergoing read/write IO
7 - SLAB
page is managed by the SLAB/SLOB/SLUB/SLQB kernel memory allocator
When compound page is used, SLUB/SLQB will only set this flag on the head
page; SLOB will not flag it at all.
10 - BUDDY
a free memory block managed by the buddy system allocator
The buddy system organizes free memory in blocks of various orders.
An order N block has 2^N physically contiguous pages, with the BUDDY flag
set for and _only_ for the first page.
15. COMPOUND_HEAD
16. COMPOUND_TAIL
15 - COMPOUND_HEAD
A compound page with order N consists of 2^N physically contiguous pages.
A compound page with order 2 takes the form of "HTTT", where H donates its
head page and T donates its tail page(s). The major consumers of compound
pages are hugeTLB pages (Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt), the SLUB etc.
memory allocators and various device drivers. However in this interface,
only huge/giga pages are made visible to end users.
17. HUGE
pages are hugeTLB pages
(:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst <hugetlbpage>`),
the SLUB etc. memory allocators and various device drivers.
However in this interface, only huge/giga pages are made visible
to end users.
16 - COMPOUND_TAIL
A compound page tail (see description above).
17 - HUGE
this is an integral part of a HugeTLB page
19. HWPOISON
19 - HWPOISON
hardware detected memory corruption on this page: don't touch the data!
20. NOPAGE
20 - NOPAGE
no page frame exists at the requested address
21. KSM
21 - KSM
identical memory pages dynamically shared between one or more processes
22. THP
22 - THP
contiguous pages which construct transparent hugepages
23. BALLOON
23 - BALLOON
balloon compaction page
24. ZERO_PAGE
24 - ZERO_PAGE
zero page for pfn_zero or huge_zero page
25. IDLE
25 - IDLE
page has not been accessed since it was marked idle (see
Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.txt). Note that this flag may be
stale in case the page was accessed via a PTE. To make sure the flag
is up-to-date one has to read /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap first.
:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst <idle_page_tracking>`).
Note that this flag may be stale in case the page was accessed via
a PTE. To make sure the flag is up-to-date one has to read
``/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap`` first.
[IO related page flags]
1. ERROR IO error occurred
3. UPTODATE page has up-to-date data
ie. for file backed page: (in-memory data revision >= on-disk one)
4. DIRTY page has been written to, hence contains new data
ie. for file backed page: (in-memory data revision > on-disk one)
8. WRITEBACK page is being synced to disk
IO related page flags
---------------------
[LRU related page flags]
5. LRU page is in one of the LRU lists
6. ACTIVE page is in the active LRU list
18. UNEVICTABLE page is in the unevictable (non-)LRU list
It is somehow pinned and not a candidate for LRU page reclaims,
eg. ramfs pages, shmctl(SHM_LOCK) and mlock() memory segments
2. REFERENCED page has been referenced since last LRU list enqueue/requeue
9. RECLAIM page will be reclaimed soon after its pageout IO completed
11. MMAP a memory mapped page
12. ANON a memory mapped page that is not part of a file
13. SWAPCACHE page is mapped to swap space, ie. has an associated swap entry
14. SWAPBACKED page is backed by swap/RAM
1 - ERROR
IO error occurred
3 - UPTODATE
page has up-to-date data
ie. for file backed page: (in-memory data revision >= on-disk one)
4 - DIRTY
page has been written to, hence contains new data
i.e. for file backed page: (in-memory data revision > on-disk one)
8 - WRITEBACK
page is being synced to disk
LRU related page flags
----------------------
5 - LRU
page is in one of the LRU lists
6 - ACTIVE
page is in the active LRU list
18 - UNEVICTABLE
page is in the unevictable (non-)LRU list It is somehow pinned and
not a candidate for LRU page reclaims, e.g. ramfs pages,
shmctl(SHM_LOCK) and mlock() memory segments
2 - REFERENCED
page has been referenced since last LRU list enqueue/requeue
9 - RECLAIM
page will be reclaimed soon after its pageout IO completed
11 - MMAP
a memory mapped page
12 - ANON
a memory mapped page that is not part of a file
13 - SWAPCACHE
page is mapped to swap space, i.e. has an associated swap entry
14 - SWAPBACKED
page is backed by swap/RAM
The page-types tool in the tools/vm directory can be used to query the
above flags.
Using pagemap to do something useful:
Using pagemap to do something useful
====================================
The general procedure for using pagemap to find out about a process' memory
usage goes like this:
1. Read /proc/pid/maps to determine which parts of the memory space are
1. Read ``/proc/pid/maps`` to determine which parts of the memory space are
mapped to what.
2. Select the maps you are interested in -- all of them, or a particular
library, or the stack or the heap, etc.
3. Open /proc/pid/pagemap and seek to the pages you would like to examine.
3. Open ``/proc/pid/pagemap`` and seek to the pages you would like to examine.
4. Read a u64 for each page from pagemap.
5. Open /proc/kpagecount and/or /proc/kpageflags. For each PFN you just
read, seek to that entry in the file, and read the data you want.
5. Open ``/proc/kpagecount`` and/or ``/proc/kpageflags``. For each PFN you
just read, seek to that entry in the file, and read the data you want.
For example, to find the "unique set size" (USS), which is the amount of
memory that a process is using that is not shared with any other process,
@ -171,7 +188,8 @@ you can go through every map in the process, find the PFNs, look those up
in kpagecount, and tally up the number of pages that are only referenced
once.
Other notes:
Other notes
===========
Reading from any of the files will return -EINVAL if you are not starting
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SOFT-DIRTY PTEs
.. _soft_dirty:
The soft-dirty is a bit on a PTE which helps to track which pages a task
===============
Soft-Dirty PTEs
===============
The soft-dirty is a bit on a PTE which helps to track which pages a task
writes to. In order to do this tracking one should
1. Clear soft-dirty bits from the task's PTEs.
This is done by writing "4" into the /proc/PID/clear_refs file of the
This is done by writing "4" into the ``/proc/PID/clear_refs`` file of the
task in question.
2. Wait some time.
3. Read soft-dirty bits from the PTEs.
This is done by reading from the /proc/PID/pagemap. The bit 55 of the
This is done by reading from the ``/proc/PID/pagemap``. The bit 55 of the
64-bit qword is the soft-dirty one. If set, the respective PTE was
written to since step 1.
Internally, to do this tracking, the writable bit is cleared from PTEs
Internally, to do this tracking, the writable bit is cleared from PTEs
when the soft-dirty bit is cleared. So, after this, when the task tries to
modify a page at some virtual address the #PF occurs and the kernel sets
the soft-dirty bit on the respective PTE.
Note, that although all the task's address space is marked as r/o after the
Note, that although all the task's address space is marked as r/o after the
soft-dirty bits clear, the #PF-s that occur after that are processed fast.
This is so, since the pages are still mapped to physical memory, and thus all
the kernel does is finds this fact out and puts both writable and soft-dirty
bits on the PTE.
While in most cases tracking memory changes by #PF-s is more than enough
While in most cases tracking memory changes by #PF-s is more than enough
there is still a scenario when we can lose soft dirty bits -- a task
unmaps a previously mapped memory region and then maps a new one at exactly
the same place. When unmap is called, the kernel internally clears PTE values
@ -36,7 +40,7 @@ including soft dirty bits. To notify user space application about such
memory region renewal the kernel always marks new memory regions (and
expanded regions) as soft dirty.
This feature is actively used by the checkpoint-restore project. You
This feature is actively used by the checkpoint-restore project. You
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.. _admin_guide_transhuge:
============================
Transparent Hugepage Support
============================
Objective
=========
Performance critical computing applications dealing with large memory
working sets are already running on top of libhugetlbfs and in turn
hugetlbfs. Transparent HugePage Support (THP) is an alternative mean of
using huge pages for the backing of virtual memory with huge pages
that supports the automatic promotion and demotion of page sizes and
without the shortcomings of hugetlbfs.
Currently THP only works for anonymous memory mappings and tmpfs/shmem.
But in the future it can expand to other filesystems.
.. note::
in the examples below we presume that the basic page size is 4K and
the huge page size is 2M, although the actual numbers may vary
depending on the CPU architecture.
The reason applications are running faster is because of two
factors. The first factor is almost completely irrelevant and it's not
of significant interest because it'll also have the downside of
requiring larger clear-page copy-page in page faults which is a
potentially negative effect. The first factor consists in taking a
single page fault for each 2M virtual region touched by userland (so
reducing the enter/exit kernel frequency by a 512 times factor). This
only matters the first time the memory is accessed for the lifetime of
a memory mapping. The second long lasting and much more important
factor will affect all subsequent accesses to the memory for the whole
runtime of the application. The second factor consist of two
components:
1) the TLB miss will run faster (especially with virtualization using
nested pagetables but almost always also on bare metal without
virtualization)
2) a single TLB entry will be mapping a much larger amount of virtual
memory in turn reducing the number of TLB misses. With
virtualization and nested pagetables the TLB can be mapped of
larger size only if both KVM and the Linux guest are using
hugepages but a significant speedup already happens if only one of
the two is using hugepages just because of the fact the TLB miss is
going to run faster.
THP can be enabled system wide or restricted to certain tasks or even
memory ranges inside task's address space. Unless THP is completely
disabled, there is ``khugepaged`` daemon that scans memory and
collapses sequences of basic pages into huge pages.
The THP behaviour is controlled via :ref:`sysfs <thp_sysfs>`
interface and using madivse(2) and prctl(2) system calls.
Transparent Hugepage Support maximizes the usefulness of free memory
if compared to the reservation approach of hugetlbfs by allowing all
unused memory to be used as cache or other movable (or even unmovable
entities). It doesn't require reservation to prevent hugepage
allocation failures to be noticeable from userland. It allows paging
and all other advanced VM features to be available on the
hugepages. It requires no modifications for applications to take
advantage of it.
Applications however can be further optimized to take advantage of
this feature, like for example they've been optimized before to avoid
a flood of mmap system calls for every malloc(4k). Optimizing userland
is by far not mandatory and khugepaged already can take care of long
lived page allocations even for hugepage unaware applications that
deals with large amounts of memory.
In certain cases when hugepages are enabled system wide, application
may end up allocating more memory resources. An application may mmap a
large region but only touch 1 byte of it, in that case a 2M page might
be allocated instead of a 4k page for no good. This is why it's
possible to disable hugepages system-wide and to only have them inside
MADV_HUGEPAGE madvise regions.
Embedded systems should enable hugepages only inside madvise regions
to eliminate any risk of wasting any precious byte of memory and to
only run faster.
Applications that gets a lot of benefit from hugepages and that don't
risk to lose memory by using hugepages, should use
madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) on their critical mmapped regions.
.. _thp_sysfs:
sysfs
=====
Global THP controls
-------------------
Transparent Hugepage Support for anonymous memory can be entirely disabled
(mostly for debugging purposes) or only enabled inside MADV_HUGEPAGE
regions (to avoid the risk of consuming more memory resources) or enabled
system wide. This can be achieved with one of::
echo always >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
echo madvise >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
echo never >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
It's also possible to limit defrag efforts in the VM to generate
anonymous hugepages in case they're not immediately free to madvise
regions or to never try to defrag memory and simply fallback to regular
pages unless hugepages are immediately available. Clearly if we spend CPU
time to defrag memory, we would expect to gain even more by the fact we
use hugepages later instead of regular pages. This isn't always
guaranteed, but it may be more likely in case the allocation is for a
MADV_HUGEPAGE region.
::
echo always >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
echo defer >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
echo defer+madvise >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
echo madvise >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
echo never >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
always
means that an application requesting THP will stall on
allocation failure and directly reclaim pages and compact
memory in an effort to allocate a THP immediately. This may be
desirable for virtual machines that benefit heavily from THP
use and are willing to delay the VM start to utilise them.
defer
means that an application will wake kswapd in the background
to reclaim pages and wake kcompactd to compact memory so that
THP is available in the near future. It's the responsibility
of khugepaged to then install the THP pages later.
defer+madvise
will enter direct reclaim and compaction like ``always``, but
only for regions that have used madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE); all
other regions will wake kswapd in the background to reclaim
pages and wake kcompactd to compact memory so that THP is
available in the near future.
madvise
will enter direct reclaim like ``always`` but only for regions
that are have used madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE). This is the default
behaviour.
never
should be self-explanatory.
By default kernel tries to use huge zero page on read page fault to
anonymous mapping. It's possible to disable huge zero page by writing 0
or enable it back by writing 1::
echo 0 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/use_zero_page
echo 1 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/use_zero_page
Some userspace (such as a test program, or an optimized memory allocation
library) may want to know the size (in bytes) of a transparent hugepage::
cat /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/hpage_pmd_size
khugepaged will be automatically started when
transparent_hugepage/enabled is set to "always" or "madvise, and it'll
be automatically shutdown if it's set to "never".
Khugepaged controls
-------------------
khugepaged runs usually at low frequency so while one may not want to
invoke defrag algorithms synchronously during the page faults, it
should be worth invoking defrag at least in khugepaged. However it's
also possible to disable defrag in khugepaged by writing 0 or enable
defrag in khugepaged by writing 1::
echo 0 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag
echo 1 >/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag
You can also control how many pages khugepaged should scan at each
pass::
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/pages_to_scan
and how many milliseconds to wait in khugepaged between each pass (you
can set this to 0 to run khugepaged at 100% utilization of one core)::
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/scan_sleep_millisecs
and how many milliseconds to wait in khugepaged if there's an hugepage
allocation failure to throttle the next allocation attempt::
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/alloc_sleep_millisecs
The khugepaged progress can be seen in the number of pages collapsed::
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/pages_collapsed
for each pass::
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/full_scans
``max_ptes_none`` specifies how many extra small pages (that are
not already mapped) can be allocated when collapsing a group
of small pages into one large page::
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_none
A higher value leads to use additional memory for programs.
A lower value leads to gain less thp performance. Value of
max_ptes_none can waste cpu time very little, you can
ignore it.
``max_ptes_swap`` specifies how many pages can be brought in from
swap when collapsing a group of pages into a transparent huge page::
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/max_ptes_swap
A higher value can cause excessive swap IO and waste
memory. A lower value can prevent THPs from being
collapsed, resulting fewer pages being collapsed into
THPs, and lower memory access performance.
Boot parameter
==============
You can change the sysfs boot time defaults of Transparent Hugepage
Support by passing the parameter ``transparent_hugepage=always`` or
``transparent_hugepage=madvise`` or ``transparent_hugepage=never``
to the kernel command line.
Hugepages in tmpfs/shmem
========================
You can control hugepage allocation policy in tmpfs with mount option
``huge=``. It can have following values:
always
Attempt to allocate huge pages every time we need a new page;
never
Do not allocate huge pages;
within_size
Only allocate huge page if it will be fully within i_size.
Also respect fadvise()/madvise() hints;
advise
Only allocate huge pages if requested with fadvise()/madvise();
The default policy is ``never``.
``mount -o remount,huge= /mountpoint`` works fine after mount: remounting
``huge=never`` will not attempt to break up huge pages at all, just stop more
from being allocated.
There's also sysfs knob to control hugepage allocation policy for internal
shmem mount: /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled. The mount
is used for SysV SHM, memfds, shared anonymous mmaps (of /dev/zero or
MAP_ANONYMOUS), GPU drivers' DRM objects, Ashmem.
In addition to policies listed above, shmem_enabled allows two further
values:
deny
For use in emergencies, to force the huge option off from
all mounts;
force
Force the huge option on for all - very useful for testing;
Need of application restart
===========================
The transparent_hugepage/enabled values and tmpfs mount option only affect
future behavior. So to make them effective you need to restart any
application that could have been using hugepages. This also applies to the
regions registered in khugepaged.
Monitoring usage
================
The number of anonymous transparent huge pages currently used by the
system is available by reading the AnonHugePages field in ``/proc/meminfo``.
To identify what applications are using anonymous transparent huge pages,
it is necessary to read ``/proc/PID/smaps`` and count the AnonHugePages fields
for each mapping.
The number of file transparent huge pages mapped to userspace is available
by reading ShmemPmdMapped and ShmemHugePages fields in ``/proc/meminfo``.
To identify what applications are mapping file transparent huge pages, it
is necessary to read ``/proc/PID/smaps`` and count the FileHugeMapped fields
for each mapping.
Note that reading the smaps file is expensive and reading it
frequently will incur overhead.
There are a number of counters in ``/proc/vmstat`` that may be used to
monitor how successfully the system is providing huge pages for use.
thp_fault_alloc
is incremented every time a huge page is successfully
allocated to handle a page fault. This applies to both the
first time a page is faulted and for COW faults.
thp_collapse_alloc
is incremented by khugepaged when it has found
a range of pages to collapse into one huge page and has
successfully allocated a new huge page to store the data.
thp_fault_fallback
is incremented if a page fault fails to allocate
a huge page and instead falls back to using small pages.
thp_collapse_alloc_failed
is incremented if khugepaged found a range
of pages that should be collapsed into one huge page but failed
the allocation.
thp_file_alloc
is incremented every time a file huge page is successfully
allocated.
thp_file_mapped
is incremented every time a file huge page is mapped into
user address space.
thp_split_page
is incremented every time a huge page is split into base
pages. This can happen for a variety of reasons but a common
reason is that a huge page is old and is being reclaimed.
This action implies splitting all PMD the page mapped with.
thp_split_page_failed
is incremented if kernel fails to split huge
page. This can happen if the page was pinned by somebody.
thp_deferred_split_page
is incremented when a huge page is put onto split
queue. This happens when a huge page is partially unmapped and
splitting it would free up some memory. Pages on split queue are
going to be split under memory pressure.
thp_split_pmd
is incremented every time a PMD split into table of PTEs.
This can happen, for instance, when application calls mprotect() or
munmap() on part of huge page. It doesn't split huge page, only
page table entry.
thp_zero_page_alloc
is incremented every time a huge zero page is
successfully allocated. It includes allocations which where
dropped due race with other allocation. Note, it doesn't count
every map of the huge zero page, only its allocation.
thp_zero_page_alloc_failed
is incremented if kernel fails to allocate
huge zero page and falls back to using small pages.
thp_swpout
is incremented every time a huge page is swapout in one
piece without splitting.
thp_swpout_fallback
is incremented if a huge page has to be split before swapout.
Usually because failed to allocate some continuous swap space
for the huge page.
As the system ages, allocating huge pages may be expensive as the
system uses memory compaction to copy data around memory to free a
huge page for use. There are some counters in ``/proc/vmstat`` to help
monitor this overhead.
compact_stall
is incremented every time a process stalls to run
memory compaction so that a huge page is free for use.
compact_success
is incremented if the system compacted memory and
freed a huge page for use.
compact_fail
is incremented if the system tries to compact memory
but failed.
compact_pages_moved
is incremented each time a page is moved. If
this value is increasing rapidly, it implies that the system
is copying a lot of data to satisfy the huge page allocation.
It is possible that the cost of copying exceeds any savings
from reduced TLB misses.
compact_pagemigrate_failed
is incremented when the underlying mechanism
for moving a page failed.
compact_blocks_moved
is incremented each time memory compaction examines
a huge page aligned range of pages.
It is possible to establish how long the stalls were using the function
tracer to record how long was spent in __alloc_pages_nodemask and
using the mm_page_alloc tracepoint to identify which allocations were
for huge pages.
Optimizing the applications
===========================
To be guaranteed that the kernel will map a 2M page immediately in any
memory region, the mmap region has to be hugepage naturally
aligned. posix_memalign() can provide that guarantee.
Hugetlbfs
=========
You can use hugetlbfs on a kernel that has transparent hugepage
support enabled just fine as always. No difference can be noted in
hugetlbfs other than there will be less overall fragmentation. All
usual features belonging to hugetlbfs are preserved and
unaffected. libhugetlbfs will also work fine as usual.

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@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
= Userfaultfd =
.. _userfaultfd:
== Objective ==
===========
Userfaultfd
===========
Objective
=========
Userfaults allow the implementation of on-demand paging from userland
and more generally they allow userland to take control of various
@ -9,7 +14,8 @@ memory page faults, something otherwise only the kernel code could do.
For example userfaults allows a proper and more optimal implementation
of the PROT_NONE+SIGSEGV trick.
== Design ==
Design
======
Userfaults are delivered and resolved through the userfaultfd syscall.
@ -41,7 +47,8 @@ different processes without them being aware about what is going on
themselves on the same region the manager is already tracking, which
is a corner case that would currently return -EBUSY).
== API ==
API
===
When first opened the userfaultfd must be enabled invoking the
UFFDIO_API ioctl specifying a uffdio_api.api value set to UFFD_API (or
@ -101,7 +108,8 @@ UFFDIO_COPY. They're atomic as in guaranteeing that nothing can see an
half copied page since it'll keep userfaulting until the copy has
finished.
== QEMU/KVM ==
QEMU/KVM
========
QEMU/KVM is using the userfaultfd syscall to implement postcopy live
migration. Postcopy live migration is one form of memory
@ -163,7 +171,8 @@ sending the same page twice (in case the userfault is read by the
postcopy thread just before UFFDIO_COPY|ZEROPAGE runs in the migration
thread).
== Non-cooperative userfaultfd ==
Non-cooperative userfaultfd
===========================
When the userfaultfd is monitored by an external manager, the manager
must be able to track changes in the process virtual memory
@ -172,27 +181,30 @@ the same read(2) protocol as for the page fault notifications. The
manager has to explicitly enable these events by setting appropriate
bits in uffdio_api.features passed to UFFDIO_API ioctl:
UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK - enable userfaultfd hooks for fork(). When
this feature is enabled, the userfaultfd context of the parent process
is duplicated into the newly created process. The manager receives
UFFD_EVENT_FORK with file descriptor of the new userfaultfd context in
the uffd_msg.fork.
UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK
enable userfaultfd hooks for fork(). When this feature is
enabled, the userfaultfd context of the parent process is
duplicated into the newly created process. The manager
receives UFFD_EVENT_FORK with file descriptor of the new
userfaultfd context in the uffd_msg.fork.
UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_REMAP - enable notifications about mremap()
calls. When the non-cooperative process moves a virtual memory area to
a different location, the manager will receive UFFD_EVENT_REMAP. The
uffd_msg.remap will contain the old and new addresses of the area and
its original length.
UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_REMAP
enable notifications about mremap() calls. When the
non-cooperative process moves a virtual memory area to a
different location, the manager will receive
UFFD_EVENT_REMAP. The uffd_msg.remap will contain the old and
new addresses of the area and its original length.
UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_REMOVE - enable notifications about
madvise(MADV_REMOVE) and madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) calls. The event
UFFD_EVENT_REMOVE will be generated upon these calls to madvise. The
uffd_msg.remove will contain start and end addresses of the removed
area.
UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_REMOVE
enable notifications about madvise(MADV_REMOVE) and
madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) calls. The event UFFD_EVENT_REMOVE will
be generated upon these calls to madvise. The uffd_msg.remove
will contain start and end addresses of the removed area.
UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_UNMAP - enable notifications about memory
unmapping. The manager will get UFFD_EVENT_UNMAP with uffd_msg.remove
containing start and end addresses of the unmapped area.
UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_UNMAP
enable notifications about memory unmapping. The manager will
get UFFD_EVENT_UNMAP with uffd_msg.remove containing start and
end addresses of the unmapped area.
Although the UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_REMOVE and UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_UNMAP
are pretty similar, they quite differ in the action expected from the

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mem=128M ramoops.mem_address=0x8000000 ramoops.ecc=1
B. Use Device Tree bindings, as described in
``Documentation/device-tree/bindings/reserved-memory/admin-guide/ramoops.rst``.
``Documentation/devicetree/bindings/reserved-memory/ramoops.txt``.
For example::
reserved-memory {

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@ -302,19 +302,15 @@ Berlin family (Multimedia Solutions)
88DE3010, Armada 1000 (no Linux support)
Core: Marvell PJ1 (ARMv5TE), Dual-core
Product Brief: http://www.marvell.com.cn/digital-entertainment/assets/armada_1000_pb.pdf
88DE3005, Armada 1500-mini
88DE3005, Armada 1500 Mini
Design name: BG2CD
Core: ARM Cortex-A9, PL310 L2CC
Homepage: http://www.marvell.com/multimedia-solutions/armada-1500-mini/
88DE3006, Armada 1500 Mini Plus
Design name: BG2CDP
Core: Dual Core ARM Cortex-A7
Homepage: http://www.marvell.com/multimedia-solutions/armada-1500-mini-plus/
88DE3006, Armada 1500 Mini Plus
Design name: BG2CDP
Core: Dual Core ARM Cortex-A7
88DE3100, Armada 1500
Design name: BG2
Core: Marvell PJ4B-MP (ARMv7), Tauros3 L2CC
Product Brief: http://www.marvell.com/digital-entertainment/armada-1500/assets/Marvell-ARMADA-1500-Product-Brief.pdf
88DE3114, Armada 1500 Pro
Design name: BG2Q
Core: Quad Core ARM Cortex-A9, PL310 L2CC
@ -324,13 +320,16 @@ Berlin family (Multimedia Solutions)
88DE3218, ARMADA 1500 Ultra
Core: ARM Cortex-A53
Homepage: http://www.marvell.com/multimedia-solutions/
Homepage: https://www.synaptics.com/products/multimedia-solutions
Directory: arch/arm/mach-berlin
Comments:
* This line of SoCs is based on Marvell Sheeva or ARM Cortex CPUs
with Synopsys DesignWare (IRQ, GPIO, Timers, ...) and PXA IP (SDHCI, USB, ETH, ...).
* The Berlin family was acquired by Synaptics from Marvell in 2017.
CPU Cores
---------

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@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
Embedded device command line partition parsing
=====================================================================
Support for reading the block device partition table from the command line.
The "blkdevparts" command line option adds support for reading the
block device partition table from the kernel command line.
It is typically used for fixed block (eMMC) embedded devices.
It has no MBR, so saves storage space. Bootloader can be easily accessed
by absolute address of data on the block device.
@ -14,22 +16,27 @@ blkdevparts=<blkdev-def>[;<blkdev-def>]
<partdef> := <size>[@<offset>](part-name)
<blkdev-id>
block device disk name, embedded device used fixed block device,
it's disk name also fixed. such as: mmcblk0, mmcblk1, mmcblk0boot0.
block device disk name. Embedded device uses fixed block device.
Its disk name is also fixed, such as: mmcblk0, mmcblk1, mmcblk0boot0.
<size>
partition size, in bytes, such as: 512, 1m, 1G.
size may contain an optional suffix of (upper or lower case):
K, M, G, T, P, E.
"-" is used to denote all remaining space.
<offset>
partition start address, in bytes.
offset may contain an optional suffix of (upper or lower case):
K, M, G, T, P, E.
(part-name)
partition name, kernel send uevent with "PARTNAME". application can create
a link to block device partition with the name "PARTNAME".
user space application can access partition by partition name.
partition name. Kernel sends uevent with "PARTNAME". Application can
create a link to block device partition with the name "PARTNAME".
User space application can access partition by partition name.
Example:
eMMC disk name is "mmcblk0" and "mmcblk0boot0"
eMMC disk names are "mmcblk0" and "mmcblk0boot0".
bootargs:
'blkdevparts=mmcblk0:1G(data0),1G(data1),-;mmcblk0boot0:1m(boot),-(kernel)'

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=================================
GFP masks used from FS/IO context
=================================
:Date: May, 2018
:Author: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Introduction
============
Code paths in the filesystem and IO stacks must be careful when
allocating memory to prevent recursion deadlocks caused by direct
memory reclaim calling back into the FS or IO paths and blocking on
already held resources (e.g. locks - most commonly those used for the
transaction context).
The traditional way to avoid this deadlock problem is to clear __GFP_FS
respectively __GFP_IO (note the latter implies clearing the first as well) in
the gfp mask when calling an allocator. GFP_NOFS respectively GFP_NOIO can be
used as shortcut. It turned out though that above approach has led to
abuses when the restricted gfp mask is used "just in case" without a
deeper consideration which leads to problems because an excessive use
of GFP_NOFS/GFP_NOIO can lead to memory over-reclaim or other memory
reclaim issues.
New API
========
Since 4.12 we do have a generic scope API for both NOFS and NOIO context
``memalloc_nofs_save``, ``memalloc_nofs_restore`` respectively ``memalloc_noio_save``,
``memalloc_noio_restore`` which allow to mark a scope to be a critical
section from a filesystem or I/O point of view. Any allocation from that
scope will inherently drop __GFP_FS respectively __GFP_IO from the given
mask so no memory allocation can recurse back in the FS/IO.
.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/sched/mm.h
:functions: memalloc_nofs_save memalloc_nofs_restore
.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/sched/mm.h
:functions: memalloc_noio_save memalloc_noio_restore
FS/IO code then simply calls the appropriate save function before
any critical section with respect to the reclaim is started - e.g.
lock shared with the reclaim context or when a transaction context
nesting would be possible via reclaim. The restore function should be
called when the critical section ends. All that ideally along with an
explanation what is the reclaim context for easier maintenance.
Please note that the proper pairing of save/restore functions
allows nesting so it is safe to call ``memalloc_noio_save`` or
``memalloc_noio_restore`` respectively from an existing NOIO or NOFS
scope.
What about __vmalloc(GFP_NOFS)
==============================
vmalloc doesn't support GFP_NOFS semantic because there are hardcoded
GFP_KERNEL allocations deep inside the allocator which are quite non-trivial
to fix up. That means that calling ``vmalloc`` with GFP_NOFS/GFP_NOIO is
almost always a bug. The good news is that the NOFS/NOIO semantic can be
achieved by the scope API.
In the ideal world, upper layers should already mark dangerous contexts
and so no special care is required and vmalloc should be called without
any problems. Sometimes if the context is not really clear or there are
layering violations then the recommended way around that is to wrap ``vmalloc``
by the scope API with a comment explaining the problem.

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@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Core utilities
kernel-api
assoc_array
atomic_ops
cachetlb
refcount-vs-atomic
cpu_hotplug
idr
@ -25,6 +26,8 @@ Core utilities
genalloc
errseq
printk-formats
circular-buffers
gfp_mask-from-fs-io
Interfaces for kernel debugging
===============================

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@ -39,17 +39,17 @@ String Manipulation
.. kernel-doc:: lib/string.c
:export:
Basic Kernel Library Functions
==============================
The Linux kernel provides more basic utility functions.
Bit Operations
--------------
.. kernel-doc:: arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h
:internal:
Basic Kernel Library Functions
==============================
The Linux kernel provides more basic utility functions.
Bitmap Operations
-----------------
@ -80,6 +80,31 @@ Command-line Parsing
.. kernel-doc:: lib/cmdline.c
:export:
Sorting
-------
.. kernel-doc:: lib/sort.c
:export:
.. kernel-doc:: lib/list_sort.c
:export:
Text Searching
--------------
.. kernel-doc:: lib/textsearch.c
:doc: ts_intro
.. kernel-doc:: lib/textsearch.c
:export:
.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/textsearch.h
:functions: textsearch_find textsearch_next \
textsearch_get_pattern textsearch_get_pattern_len
CRC and Math Functions in Linux
===============================
CRC Functions
-------------
@ -103,9 +128,6 @@ CRC Functions
.. kernel-doc:: lib/crc-itu-t.c
:export:
Math Functions in Linux
=======================
Base 2 log and power Functions
------------------------------
@ -127,28 +149,6 @@ Division Functions
.. kernel-doc:: lib/gcd.c
:export:
Sorting
-------
.. kernel-doc:: lib/sort.c
:export:
.. kernel-doc:: lib/list_sort.c
:export:
Text Searching
--------------
.. kernel-doc:: lib/textsearch.c
:doc: ts_intro
.. kernel-doc:: lib/textsearch.c
:export:
.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/textsearch.h
:functions: textsearch_find textsearch_next \
textsearch_get_pattern textsearch_get_pattern_len
UUID/GUID
---------

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@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ in order to help maintainers validate their code against the change in
these memory ordering guarantees.
The terms used through this document try to follow the formal LKMM defined in
github.com/aparri/memory-model/blob/master/Documentation/explanation.txt
tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt.
memory-barriers.txt and atomic_t.txt provide more background to the
memory ordering in general and for atomic operations specifically.

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@ -20,5 +20,6 @@ for cryptographic use cases, as well as programming examples.
architecture
devel-algos
userspace-if
crypto_engine
api
api-samples

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@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ A typical out of bounds access report looks like this::
The header of the report discribe what kind of bug happened and what kind of
access caused it. It's followed by the description of the accessed slub object
(see 'SLUB Debug output' section in Documentation/vm/slub.txt for details) and
(see 'SLUB Debug output' section in Documentation/vm/slub.rst for details) and
the description of the accessed memory page.
In the last section the report shows memory state around the accessed address.

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TEST_FILES, TEST_GEN_FILES mean it is the file which is used by
test.
* First use the headers inside the kernel source and/or git repo, and then the
system headers. Headers for the kernel release as opposed to headers
installed by the distro on the system should be the primary focus to be able
to find regressions.
Test Harness
============

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@ -40,4 +40,4 @@ API
---
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/devcon.c
: functions: device_connection_find_match device_connection_find device_connection_add device_connection_remove
:functions: device_connection_find_match device_connection_find device_connection_add device_connection_remove

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@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ common to each controller of that type:
- methods to establish GPIO line direction
- methods used to access GPIO line values
- method to set electrical configuration to a a given GPIO line
- method to set electrical configuration for a given GPIO line
- method to return the IRQ number associated to a given GPIO line
- flag saying whether calls to its methods may sleep
- optional line names array to identify lines
@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ resistor will make the line tend to high level unless one of the transistors on
the rail actively pulls it down.
The level on the line will go as high as the VDD on the pull-up resistor, which
may be higher than the level supported by the transistor, achieveing a
may be higher than the level supported by the transistor, achieving a
level-shift to the higher VDD.
Integrated electronics often have an output driver stage in the form of a CMOS
@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ Real-Time compliance for GPIO IRQ chips
Any provider of irqchips needs to be carefully tailored to support Real Time
preemption. It is desirable that all irqchips in the GPIO subsystem keep this
in mind and does the proper testing to assure they are real time-enabled.
in mind and do the proper testing to assure they are real time-enabled.
So, pay attention on above " RT_FULL:" notes, please.
The following is a checklist to follow when preparing a driver for real
time-compliance:

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@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ available subsections can be seen below.
basics
infrastructure
pm/index
clk
device-io
device_connection
dma-buf
device_link
message-based

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@ -711,7 +711,8 @@ The vmbus device regions are mapped into uio device resources:
If a subchannel is created by a request to host, then the uio_hv_generic
device driver will create a sysfs binary file for the per-channel ring buffer.
For example:
For example::
/sys/bus/vmbus/devices/3811fe4d-0fa0-4b62-981a-74fc1084c757/channels/21/ring
Further information

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@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#
# Feature name: strncasecmp
# Kconfig: __HAVE_ARCH_STRNCASECMP
# description: arch provides an optimized strncasecmp() function
# Feature name: cBPF-JIT
# Kconfig: HAVE_CBPF_JIT
# description: arch supports cBPF JIT optimizations
#
-----------------------
| arch |status|
@ -16,14 +16,16 @@
| ia64: | TODO |
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | TODO |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | TODO |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | TODO |
| sparc: | ok |
| um: | TODO |
| unicore32: | TODO |
| x86: | TODO |

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@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#
# Feature name: BPF-JIT
# Kconfig: HAVE_BPF_JIT
# description: arch supports BPF JIT optimizations
# Feature name: eBPF-JIT
# Kconfig: HAVE_EBPF_JIT
# description: arch supports eBPF JIT optimizations
#
-----------------------
| arch |status|
@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | ok |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| openrisc: | ok |
| parisc: | ok |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | ok |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | ok |
| sparc: | ok |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | ok |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | ok |
| nios2: | ok |
| openrisc: | ok |
| parisc: | ok |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | ok |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | ok |
| sparc: | ok |

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@ -17,15 +17,17 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | TODO |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | TODO |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | TODO |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | TODO |
| um: | TODO |
| unicore32: | TODO |
| x86: | ok | 64-bit only
| x86: | ok |
| xtensa: | ok |
-----------------------

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | ok |
| mips: | TODO |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | ok |
| sparc: | TODO |

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@ -11,16 +11,18 @@
| arm: | ok |
| arm64: | ok |
| c6x: | TODO |
| h8300: | TODO |
| h8300: | ok |
| hexagon: | ok |
| ia64: | TODO |
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | ok |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | ok |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | TODO |
| sh: | ok |
| sparc: | ok |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | TODO |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | TODO |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | TODO |

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@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
| alpha: | TODO |
| arc: | ok |
| arm: | ok |
| arm64: | TODO |
| arm64: | ok |
| c6x: | TODO |
| h8300: | TODO |
| hexagon: | TODO |
@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | ok |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | ok |
| sparc: | ok |

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@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
| alpha: | TODO |
| arc: | ok |
| arm: | ok |
| arm64: | TODO |
| arm64: | ok |
| c6x: | TODO |
| h8300: | TODO |
| hexagon: | TODO |
@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | ok |
| sparc: | ok |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | TODO |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | TODO |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | TODO |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | TODO |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | TODO |
| sh: | ok |
| sparc: | TODO |

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@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
| alpha: | TODO |
| arc: | TODO |
| arm: | ok |
| arm64: | TODO |
| arm64: | ok |
| c6x: | TODO |
| h8300: | TODO |
| hexagon: | TODO |
@ -17,13 +17,15 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | TODO |
| sparc: | ok |
| um: | TODO |
| unicore32: | TODO |
| x86: | ok |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | TODO |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | TODO |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | TODO |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | TODO |

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Documentation/features/io/dma-contiguous/arch-support.txt
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@ -17,11 +17,13 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | TODO |
| s390: | TODO |
| riscv: | ok |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | TODO |
| um: | TODO |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | TODO |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | ok |

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@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
| alpha: | TODO |
| arc: | TODO |
| arm: | TODO |
| arm64: | TODO |
| arm64: | ok |
| c6x: | TODO |
| h8300: | TODO |
| hexagon: | TODO |
@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | TODO |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | TODO |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | TODO |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | ok |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | ok |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| openrisc: | ok |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | ok |
| sparc: | ok |

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Documentation/features/locking/queued-rwlocks/arch-support.txt
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@ -9,21 +9,23 @@
| alpha: | TODO |
| arc: | TODO |
| arm: | TODO |
| arm64: | TODO |
| arm64: | ok |
| c6x: | TODO |
| h8300: | TODO |
| hexagon: | TODO |
| ia64: | TODO |
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | TODO |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| openrisc: | ok |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | TODO |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | TODO |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | TODO |
| sparc: | ok |
| um: | TODO |
| unicore32: | TODO |
| x86: | ok |

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@ -16,14 +16,16 @@
| ia64: | TODO |
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | TODO |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| openrisc: | ok |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | TODO |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | TODO |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | TODO |
| sparc: | ok |
| um: | TODO |
| unicore32: | TODO |
| x86: | ok |

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Documentation/features/locking/rwsem-optimized/arch-support.txt
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@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#
# Feature name: rwsem-optimized
# Kconfig: Optimized asm/rwsem.h
# Kconfig: !RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK
# description: arch provides optimized rwsem APIs
#
-----------------------
@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
-----------------------
| alpha: | ok |
| arc: | TODO |
| arm: | TODO |
| arm64: | TODO |
| arm: | ok |
| arm64: | ok |
| c6x: | TODO |
| h8300: | TODO |
| hexagon: | TODO |
@ -17,14 +17,16 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | TODO |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | TODO |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | ok |
| sparc: | ok |
| um: | TODO |
| um: | ok |
| unicore32: | TODO |
| x86: | ok |
| xtensa: | ok |

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@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
| alpha: | TODO |
| arc: | TODO |
| arm: | ok |
| arm64: | TODO |
| arm64: | ok |
| c6x: | TODO |
| h8300: | TODO |
| hexagon: | ok |
@ -17,13 +17,15 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | ok |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | ok |
| sparc: | TODO |
| sparc: | ok |
| um: | TODO |
| unicore32: | TODO |
| x86: | ok |

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@ -17,11 +17,13 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | TODO |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| s390: | TODO |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | TODO |
| um: | TODO |

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@ -17,11 +17,13 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | TODO |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| s390: | TODO |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | TODO |
| um: | TODO |

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@ -40,10 +40,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | TODO |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | TODO |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | TODO |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | TODO |

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@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
| alpha: | TODO |
| arc: | .. |
| arm: | .. |
| arm64: | .. |
| arm64: | ok |
| c6x: | .. |
| h8300: | .. |
| hexagon: | .. |
@ -17,11 +17,13 @@
| m68k: | .. |
| microblaze: | .. |
| mips: | TODO |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | .. |
| openrisc: | .. |
| parisc: | .. |
| powerpc: | ok |
| s390: | .. |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | .. |
| sparc: | TODO |
| um: | .. |

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@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
#
# Small script that refreshes the kernel feature support status in place.
#
for F_FILE in Documentation/features/*/*/arch-support.txt; do
F=$(grep "^# Kconfig:" "$F_FILE" | cut -c26-)
#
# Each feature F is identified by a pair (O, K), where 'O' can
# be either the empty string (for 'nop') or "not" (the logical
# negation operator '!'); other operators are not supported.
#
O=""
K=$F
if [[ "$F" == !* ]]; then
O="not"
K=$(echo $F | sed -e 's/^!//g')
fi
#
# F := (O, K) is 'valid' iff there is a Kconfig file (for some
# arch) which contains K.
#
# Notice that this definition entails an 'asymmetry' between
# the case 'O = ""' and the case 'O = "not"'. E.g., F may be
# _invalid_ if:
#
# [case 'O = ""']
# 1) no arch provides support for F,
# 2) K does not exist (e.g., it was renamed/mis-typed);
#
# [case 'O = "not"']
# 3) all archs provide support for F,
# 4) as in (2).
#
# The rationale for adopting this definition (and, thus, for
# keeping the asymmetry) is:
#
# We want to be able to 'detect' (2) (or (4)).
#
# (1) and (3) may further warn the developers about the fact
# that K can be removed.
#
F_VALID="false"
for ARCH_DIR in arch/*/; do
K_FILES=$(find $ARCH_DIR -name "Kconfig*")
K_GREP=$(grep "$K" $K_FILES)
if [ ! -z "$K_GREP" ]; then
F_VALID="true"
break
fi
done
if [ "$F_VALID" = "false" ]; then
printf "WARNING: '%s' is not a valid Kconfig\n" "$F"
fi
T_FILE="$F_FILE.tmp"
grep "^#" $F_FILE > $T_FILE
echo " -----------------------" >> $T_FILE
echo " | arch |status|" >> $T_FILE
echo " -----------------------" >> $T_FILE
for ARCH_DIR in arch/*/; do
ARCH=$(echo $ARCH_DIR | sed -e 's/arch//g' | sed -e 's/\///g')
K_FILES=$(find $ARCH_DIR -name "Kconfig*")
K_GREP=$(grep "$K" $K_FILES)
#
# Arch support status values for (O, K) are updated according
# to the following rules.
#
# - ("", K) is 'supported by a given arch', if there is a
# Kconfig file for that arch which contains K;
#
# - ("not", K) is 'supported by a given arch', if there is
# no Kconfig file for that arch which contains K;
#
# - otherwise: preserve the previous status value (if any),
# default to 'not yet supported'.
#
# Notice that, according these rules, invalid features may be
# updated/modified.
#
if [ "$O" = "" ] && [ ! -z "$K_GREP" ]; then
printf " |%12s: | ok |\n" "$ARCH" >> $T_FILE
elif [ "$O" = "not" ] && [ -z "$K_GREP" ]; then
printf " |%12s: | ok |\n" "$ARCH" >> $T_FILE
else
S=$(grep -v "^#" "$F_FILE" | grep " $ARCH:")
if [ ! -z "$S" ]; then
echo "$S" >> $T_FILE
else
printf " |%12s: | TODO |\n" "$ARCH" \
>> $T_FILE
fi
fi
done
echo " -----------------------" >> $T_FILE
mv $T_FILE $F_FILE
done

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | TODO |
| parisc: | ok |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | TODO |

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@ -17,12 +17,14 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | TODO |
| sh: | TODO |
| sh: | ok |
| sparc: | TODO |
| um: | TODO |
| unicore32: | TODO |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | ok |
| microblaze: | ok |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | ok |
| nios2: | ok |
| openrisc: | ok |
| parisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | ok |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | ok |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | ok |
| sparc: | ok |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | TODO |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | ok |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | .. |
| powerpc: | .. |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | .. |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | .. |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | ok |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | ok |
| nios2: | ok |
| openrisc: | ok |
| parisc: | ok |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | ok |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | ok |
| sparc: | ok |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | ok |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | ok |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | ok |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | TODO |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | TODO |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | TODO |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | TODO |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | TODO |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | .. |
| microblaze: | .. |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | .. |
| openrisc: | .. |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | .. |
| sparc: | ok |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | .. |
| microblaze: | .. |
| mips: | TODO |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | .. |
| openrisc: | .. |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | TODO |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | TODO |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | TODO |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | TODO |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | TODO |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | TODO |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | TODO |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | TODO |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | TODO |
| sh: | ok |
| sparc: | TODO |

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@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
| alpha: | TODO |
| arc: | .. |
| arm: | .. |
| arm64: | .. |
| arm64: | ok |
| c6x: | .. |
| h8300: | .. |
| hexagon: | .. |
@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | .. |
| microblaze: | ok |
| mips: | ok |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | .. |
| openrisc: | .. |
| parisc: | .. |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | ok |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | ok |
| sparc: | ok |

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@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
| m68k: | TODO |
| microblaze: | TODO |
| mips: | TODO |
| nds32: | TODO |
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
| powerpc: | ok |
| riscv: | TODO |
| s390: | ok |
| sh: | ok |
| sparc: | ok |

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@ -515,7 +515,8 @@ guarantees:
The /proc/PID/clear_refs is used to reset the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG
bits on both physical and virtual pages associated with a process, and the
soft-dirty bit on pte (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for details).
soft-dirty bit on pte (see Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst
for details).
To clear the bits for all the pages associated with the process
> echo 1 > /proc/PID/clear_refs
@ -536,7 +537,8 @@ Any other value written to /proc/PID/clear_refs will have no effect.
The /proc/pid/pagemap gives the PFN, which can be used to find the pageflags
using /proc/kpageflags and number of times a page is mapped using
/proc/kpagecount. For detailed explanation, see Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt.
/proc/kpagecount. For detailed explanation, see
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst.
The /proc/pid/numa_maps is an extension based on maps, showing the memory
locality and binding policy, as well as the memory usage (in pages) of
@ -564,7 +566,7 @@ address policy mapping details
Where:
"address" is the starting address for the mapping;
"policy" reports the NUMA memory policy set for the mapping (see vm/numa_memory_policy.txt);
"policy" reports the NUMA memory policy set for the mapping (see Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst);
"mapping details" summarizes mapping data such as mapping type, page usage counters,
node locality page counters (N0 == node0, N1 == node1, ...) and the kernel page
size, in KB, that is backing the mapping up.

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@ -105,8 +105,9 @@ policy for the file will revert to "default" policy.
NUMA memory allocation policies have optional flags that can be used in
conjunction with their modes. These optional flags can be specified
when tmpfs is mounted by appending them to the mode before the NodeList.
See Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt for a list of all available
memory allocation policy mode flags and their effect on memory policy.
See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst for a list of
all available memory allocation policy mode flags and their effect on
memory policy.
=static is equivalent to MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
=relative is equivalent to MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES

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@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ needed).
sound/index
crypto/index
filesystems/index
vm/index
Architecture-specific documentation
-----------------------------------

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@ -73,7 +73,9 @@ will have a second iteration or at least an extension for any given interface.
future extensions is going right down the gutters since someone will submit
an ioctl struct with random stack garbage in the yet unused parts. Which
then bakes in the ABI that those fields can never be used for anything else
but garbage.
but garbage. This is also the reason why you must explicitly pad all
structures, even if you never use them in an array - the padding the compiler
might insert could contain garbage.
* Have simple testcases for all of the above.

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@ -2903,7 +2903,7 @@ is discarded from the CPU's cache and reloaded. To deal with this, the
appropriate part of the kernel must invalidate the overlapping bits of the
cache on each CPU.
See Documentation/cachetlb.txt for more information on cache management.
See Documentation/core-api/cachetlb.rst for more information on cache management.
CACHE COHERENCY VS MMIO
@ -3083,7 +3083,7 @@ CIRCULAR BUFFERS
Memory barriers can be used to implement circular buffering without the need
of a lock to serialise the producer with the consumer. See:
Documentation/circular-buffers.txt
Documentation/core-api/circular-buffers.rst
for details.

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@ -18,17 +18,17 @@ major kernel release happening every two or three months. The recent
release history looks like this:
====== =================
2.6.38 March 14, 2011
2.6.37 January 4, 2011
2.6.36 October 20, 2010
2.6.35 August 1, 2010
2.6.34 May 15, 2010
2.6.33 February 24, 2010
4.11 April 30, 2017
4.12 July 2, 2017
4.13 September 3, 2017
4.14 November 12, 2017
4.15 January 28, 2018
4.16 April 1, 2018
====== =================
Every 2.6.x release is a major kernel release with new features, internal
API changes, and more. A typical 2.6 release can contain nearly 10,000
changesets with changes to several hundred thousand lines of code. 2.6 is
Every 4.x release is a major kernel release with new features, internal
API changes, and more. A typical 4.x release contain about 13,000
changesets with changes to several hundred thousand lines of code. 4.x is
thus the leading edge of Linux kernel development; the kernel uses a
rolling development model which is continually integrating major changes.
@ -70,20 +70,19 @@ will get up to somewhere between -rc6 and -rc9 before the kernel is
considered to be sufficiently stable and the final 2.6.x release is made.
At that point the whole process starts over again.
As an example, here is how the 2.6.38 development cycle went (all dates in
2011):
As an example, here is how the 4.16 development cycle went (all dates in
2018):
============== ===============================
January 4 2.6.37 stable release
January 18 2.6.38-rc1, merge window closes
January 21 2.6.38-rc2
February 1 2.6.38-rc3
February 7 2.6.38-rc4
February 15 2.6.38-rc5
February 21 2.6.38-rc6
March 1 2.6.38-rc7
March 7 2.6.38-rc8
March 14 2.6.38 stable release
January 28 4.15 stable release
February 11 4.16-rc1, merge window closes
February 18 4.16-rc2
February 25 4.16-rc3
March 4 4.16-rc4
March 11 4.16-rc5
March 18 4.16-rc6
March 25 4.16-rc7
April 1 4.17 stable release
============== ===============================
How do the developers decide when to close the development cycle and create
@ -99,37 +98,42 @@ release is made. In the real world, this kind of perfection is hard to
achieve; there are just too many variables in a project of this size.
There comes a point where delaying the final release just makes the problem
worse; the pile of changes waiting for the next merge window will grow
larger, creating even more regressions the next time around. So most 2.6.x
larger, creating even more regressions the next time around. So most 4.x
kernels go out with a handful of known regressions though, hopefully, none
of them are serious.
Once a stable release is made, its ongoing maintenance is passed off to the
"stable team," currently consisting of Greg Kroah-Hartman. The stable team
will release occasional updates to the stable release using the 2.6.x.y
will release occasional updates to the stable release using the 4.x.y
numbering scheme. To be considered for an update release, a patch must (1)
fix a significant bug, and (2) already be merged into the mainline for the
next development kernel. Kernels will typically receive stable updates for
a little more than one development cycle past their initial release. So,
for example, the 2.6.36 kernel's history looked like:
for example, the 4.13 kernel's history looked like:
============== ===============================
October 10 2.6.36 stable release
November 22 2.6.36.1
December 9 2.6.36.2
January 7 2.6.36.3
February 17 2.6.36.4
September 3 4.13 stable release
September 13 4.13.1
September 20 4.13.2
September 27 4.13.3
October 5 4.13.4
October 12 4.13.5
... ...
November 24 4.13.16
============== ===============================
2.6.36.4 was the final stable update for the 2.6.36 release.
4.13.16 was the final stable update of the 4.13 release.
Some kernels are designated "long term" kernels; they will receive support
for a longer period. As of this writing, the current long term kernels
and their maintainers are:
====== ====================== ===========================
2.6.27 Willy Tarreau (Deep-frozen stable kernel)
2.6.32 Greg Kroah-Hartman
2.6.35 Andi Kleen (Embedded flag kernel)
====== ====================== ==============================
3.16 Ben Hutchings (very long-term stable kernel)
4.1 Sasha Levin
4.4 Greg Kroah-Hartman (very long-term stable kernel)
4.9 Greg Kroah-Hartman
4.14 Greg Kroah-Hartman
====== ====================== ===========================
The selection of a kernel for long-term support is purely a matter of a

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@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ of conventions and procedures which are used in the posting of patches;
following them will make life much easier for everybody involved. This
document will attempt to cover these expectations in reasonable detail;
more information can also be found in the files process/submitting-patches.rst,
process/submitting-drivers.rst, and process/submit-checklist.rst in the kernel documentation
directory.
process/submitting-drivers.rst, and process/submit-checklist.rst in the kernel
documentation directory.
When to post
@ -198,8 +198,8 @@ pass it to diff with the "-X" option.
The tags mentioned above are used to describe how various developers have
been associated with the development of this patch. They are described in
detail in the process/submitting-patches.rst document; what follows here is a brief
summary. Each of these lines has the format:
detail in the process/submitting-patches.rst document; what follows here is a
brief summary. Each of these lines has the format:
::
@ -210,8 +210,8 @@ The tags in common use are:
- Signed-off-by: this is a developer's certification that he or she has
the right to submit the patch for inclusion into the kernel. It is an
agreement to the Developer's Certificate of Origin, the full text of
which can be found in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst. Code without a
proper signoff cannot be merged into the mainline.
which can be found in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst. Code
without a proper signoff cannot be merged into the mainline.
- Co-developed-by: states that the patch was also created by another developer
along with the original author. This is useful at times when multiple
@ -226,8 +226,8 @@ The tags in common use are:
it to work.
- Reviewed-by: the named developer has reviewed the patch for correctness;
see the reviewer's statement in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst for more
detail.
see the reviewer's statement in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
for more detail.
- Reported-by: names a user who reported a problem which is fixed by this
patch; this tag is used to give credit to the (often underappreciated)

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@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ lack of a better place.
adding-syscalls
magic-number
volatile-considered-harmful
clang-format
.. only:: subproject and html

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@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ Our goal is to protect your master key by moving it to offline media, so
if you only have a combined **[SC]** key, then you should create a separate
signing subkey::
$ gpg --quick-add-key [fpr] ed25519 sign
$ gpg --quick-addkey [fpr] ed25519 sign
Remember to tell the keyservers about this change, so others can pull down
your new subkey::
@ -450,11 +450,18 @@ functionality. There are several options available:
others. If you want to use ECC keys, your best bet among commercially
available devices is the Nitrokey Start.
.. note::
If you are listed in MAINTAINERS or have an account at kernel.org,
you `qualify for a free Nitrokey Start`_ courtesy of The Linux
Foundation.
.. _`Nitrokey Start`: https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/product/nitrokey-start-6
.. _`Nitrokey Pro`: https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/product/nitrokey-pro-3
.. _`Yubikey 4`: https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-4-series/
.. _Gnuk: http://www.fsij.org/doc-gnuk/
.. _`LWN has a good review`: https://lwn.net/Articles/736231/
.. _`qualify for a free Nitrokey Start`: https://www.kernel.org/nitrokey-digital-tokens-for-kernel-developers.html
Configure your smartcard device
-------------------------------
@ -482,7 +489,7 @@ there are no convenient command-line switches::
You should set the user PIN (1), Admin PIN (3), and the Reset Code (4).
Please make sure to record and store these in a safe place -- especially
the Admin PIN and the Reset Code (which allows you to completely wipe
the smartcard). You so rarely need to use the Admin PIN, that you will
the smartcard). You so rarely need to use the Admin PIN, that you will
inevitably forget what it is if you do not record it.
Getting back to the main card menu, you can also set other values (such
@ -494,6 +501,12 @@ additionally leak information about your smartcard should you lose it.
Despite having the name "PIN", neither the user PIN nor the admin
PIN on the card need to be numbers.
.. warning::
Some devices may require that you move the subkeys onto the device
before you can change the passphrase. Please check the documentation
provided by the device manufacturer.
Move the subkeys to your smartcard
----------------------------------
@ -655,6 +668,20 @@ want to import these changes back into your regular working directory::
$ gpg --export | gpg --homedir ~/.gnupg --import
$ unset GNUPGHOME
Using gpg-agent over ssh
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You can forward your gpg-agent over ssh if you need to sign tags or
commits on a remote system. Please refer to the instructions provided
on the GnuPG wiki:
- `Agent Forwarding over SSH`_
It works more smoothly if you can modify the sshd server settings on the
remote end.
.. _`Agent Forwarding over SSH`: https://wiki.gnupg.org/AgentForwarding
Using PGP with Git
==================
@ -692,6 +719,7 @@ should be used (``[fpr]`` is the fingerprint of your key)::
tell git to always use it instead of the legacy ``gpg`` from version 1::
$ git config --global gpg.program gpg2
$ git config --global gpgv.program gpgv2
How to work with signed tags
----------------------------
@ -731,6 +759,13 @@ If you are verifying someone else's git tag, then you will need to
import their PGP key. Please refer to the
":ref:`verify_identities`" section below.
.. note::
If you get "``gpg: Can't check signature: unknown pubkey
algorithm``" error, you need to tell git to use gpgv2 for
verification, so it properly processes signatures made by ECC keys.
See instructions at the start of this section.
Configure git to always sign annotated tags
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ requests, especially from new, unknown developers. If in doubt you can use
the pull request as the cover letter for a normal posting of the patch
series, giving the maintainer the option of using either.
A pull request should have [GIT] or [PULL] in the subject line. The
A pull request should have [GIT PULL] in the subject line. The
request itself should include the repository name and the branch of
interest on a single line; it should look something like::

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@ -9,5 +9,7 @@ Security Documentation
IMA-templates
keys/index
LSM
LSM-sctp
SELinux-sctp
self-protection
tpm/index

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@ -1062,7 +1062,7 @@ output (with ``--no-upload`` option) to kernel bugzilla or alsa-devel
ML (see the section `Links and Addresses`_).
``power_save`` and ``power_save_controller`` options are for power-saving
mode. See powersave.txt for details.
mode. See powersave.rst for details.
Note 2: If you get click noises on output, try the module option
``position_fix=1`` or ``2``. ``position_fix=1`` will use the SD_LPIB
@ -1133,7 +1133,7 @@ line_outs_monitor
enable_monitor
Enable Analog Out on Channel 63/64 by default.
See hdspm.txt for details.
See hdspm.rst for details.
Module snd-ice1712
------------------

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@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ DAPM description
----------------
The Dynamic Audio Power Management description describes the codec power
components and their relationships and registers to the ASoC core.
Please read dapm.txt for details of building the description.
Please read dapm.rst for details of building the description.
Please also see the examples in other codec drivers.

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@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Each SoC DAI driver must provide the following features:-
4. SYSCLK configuration
5. Suspend and resume (optional)
Please see codec.txt for a description of items 1 - 4.
Please see codec.rst for a description of items 1 - 4.
SoC DSP Drivers

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@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ nr_hugepages
Change the minimum size of the hugepage pool.
See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
==============================================================
@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ nr_overcommit_hugepages
Change the maximum size of the hugepage pool. The maximum is
nr_hugepages + nr_overcommit_hugepages.
See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
==============================================================
@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ and don't use much of it.
The default value is 0.
See Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting and
See Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.rst and
mm/mmap.c::__vm_enough_memory() for more information.
==============================================================

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@ -187,13 +187,19 @@ that can be performed on them (see "struct coresight_ops"). The
specific to that component only. "Implementation defined" customisations are
expected to be accessed and controlled using those entries.
Last but not least, "struct module *owner" is expected to be set to reflect
the information carried in "THIS_MODULE".
How to use the tracer modules
-----------------------------
Before trace collection can start, a coresight sink needs to be identify.
There are two ways to use the Coresight framework: 1) using the perf cmd line
tools and 2) interacting directly with the Coresight devices using the sysFS
interface. Preference is given to the former as using the sysFS interface
requires a deep understanding of the Coresight HW. The following sections
provide details on using both methods.
1) Using the sysFS interface:
Before trace collection can start, a coresight sink needs to be identified.
There is no limit on the amount of sinks (nor sources) that can be enabled at
any given moment. As a generic operation, all device pertaining to the sink
class will have an "active" entry in sysfs:
@ -298,42 +304,48 @@ Instruction 13570831 0x8026B584 E28DD00C false ADD
Instruction 0 0x8026B588 E8BD8000 true LDM sp!,{pc}
Timestamp Timestamp: 17107041535
How to use the STM module
-------------------------
2) Using perf framework:
Using the System Trace Macrocell module is the same as the tracers - the only
difference is that clients are driving the trace capture rather
than the program flow through the code.
Coresight tracers are represented using the Perf framework's Performance
Monitoring Unit (PMU) abstraction. As such the perf framework takes charge of
controlling when tracing gets enabled based on when the process of interest is
scheduled. When configured in a system, Coresight PMUs will be listed when
queried by the perf command line tool:
As with any other CoreSight component, specifics about the STM tracer can be
found in sysfs with more information on each entry being found in [1]:
linaro@linaro-nano:~$ ./perf list pmu
root@genericarmv8:~# ls /sys/bus/coresight/devices/20100000.stm
enable_source hwevent_select port_enable subsystem uevent
hwevent_enable mgmt port_select traceid
root@genericarmv8:~#
List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):
Like any other source a sink needs to be identified and the STM enabled before
being used:
cs_etm// [Kernel PMU event]
root@genericarmv8:~# echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/20010000.etf/enable_sink
root@genericarmv8:~# echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/20100000.stm/enable_source
linaro@linaro-nano:~$
From there user space applications can request and use channels using the devfs
interface provided for that purpose by the generic STM API:
Regardless of the number of tracers available in a system (usually equal to the
amount of processor cores), the "cs_etm" PMU will be listed only once.
root@genericarmv8:~# ls -l /dev/20100000.stm
crw------- 1 root root 10, 61 Jan 3 18:11 /dev/20100000.stm
root@genericarmv8:~#
A Coresight PMU works the same way as any other PMU, i.e the name of the PMU is
listed along with configuration options within forward slashes '/'. Since a
Coresight system will typically have more than one sink, the name of the sink to
work with needs to be specified as an event option. Names for sink to choose
from are listed in sysFS under ($SYSFS)/bus/coresight/devices:
Details on how to use the generic STM API can be found here [2].
root@linaro-nano:~# ls /sys/bus/coresight/devices/
20010000.etf 20040000.funnel 20100000.stm 22040000.etm
22140000.etm 230c0000.funnel 23240000.etm 20030000.tpiu
20070000.etr 20120000.replicator 220c0000.funnel
23040000.etm 23140000.etm 23340000.etm
[1]. Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-coresight-devices-stm
[2]. Documentation/trace/stm.txt
root@linaro-nano:~# perf record -e cs_etm/@20070000.etr/u --per-thread program
The syntax within the forward slashes '/' is important. The '@' character
tells the parser that a sink is about to be specified and that this is the sink
to use for the trace session.
Using perf tools
----------------
More information on the above and other example on how to use Coresight with
the perf tools can be found in the "HOWTO.md" file of the openCSD gitHub
repository [3].
2.1) AutoFDO analysis using the perf tools:
perf can be used to record and analyze trace of programs.
@ -381,3 +393,38 @@ sort example is from the AutoFDO tutorial (https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/AutoFDO/Tuto
$ taskset -c 2 ./sort_autofdo
Bubble sorting array of 30000 elements
5806 ms
How to use the STM module
-------------------------
Using the System Trace Macrocell module is the same as the tracers - the only
difference is that clients are driving the trace capture rather
than the program flow through the code.
As with any other CoreSight component, specifics about the STM tracer can be
found in sysfs with more information on each entry being found in [1]:
root@genericarmv8:~# ls /sys/bus/coresight/devices/20100000.stm
enable_source hwevent_select port_enable subsystem uevent
hwevent_enable mgmt port_select traceid
root@genericarmv8:~#
Like any other source a sink needs to be identified and the STM enabled before
being used:
root@genericarmv8:~# echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/20010000.etf/enable_sink
root@genericarmv8:~# echo 1 > /sys/bus/coresight/devices/20100000.stm/enable_source
From there user space applications can request and use channels using the devfs
interface provided for that purpose by the generic STM API:
root@genericarmv8:~# ls -l /dev/20100000.stm
crw------- 1 root root 10, 61 Jan 3 18:11 /dev/20100000.stm
root@genericarmv8:~#
Details on how to use the generic STM API can be found here [2].
[1]. Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-coresight-devices-stm
[2]. Documentation/trace/stm.txt
[3]. https://github.com/Linaro/perf-opencsd

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Introduction
============
The ftrace infrastructure was originially created to attach callbacks to the
The ftrace infrastructure was originally created to attach callbacks to the
beginning of functions in order to record and trace the flow of the kernel.
But callbacks to the start of a function can have other use cases. Either
for live kernel patching, or for security monitoring. This document describes
@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ The ftrace context
This requires extra care to what can be done inside a callback. A callback
can be called outside the protective scope of RCU.
The ftrace infrastructure has some protections agains recursions and RCU
The ftrace infrastructure has some protections against recursions and RCU
but one must still be very careful how they use the callbacks.

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@ -224,6 +224,8 @@ of ftrace. Here is a list of some of the key files:
has a side effect of enabling or disabling specific functions
to be traced. Echoing names of functions into this file
will limit the trace to only those functions.
This influences the tracers "function" and "function_graph"
and thus also function profiling (see "function_profile_enabled").
The functions listed in "available_filter_functions" are what
can be written into this file.
@ -265,6 +267,8 @@ of ftrace. Here is a list of some of the key files:
Functions listed in this file will cause the function graph
tracer to only trace these functions and the functions that
they call. (See the section "dynamic ftrace" for more details).
Note, set_ftrace_filter and set_ftrace_notrace still affects
what functions are being traced.
set_graph_notrace:
@ -277,7 +281,8 @@ of ftrace. Here is a list of some of the key files:
This lists the functions that ftrace has processed and can trace.
These are the function names that you can pass to
"set_ftrace_filter" or "set_ftrace_notrace".
"set_ftrace_filter", "set_ftrace_notrace",
"set_graph_function", or "set_graph_notrace".
(See the section "dynamic ftrace" below for more details.)
dyn_ftrace_total_info:

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문제를 해결하기 위해선, 커널의 적절한 부분에서 각 CPU 의 캐시 안의 문제가 되는
비트들을 무효화 시켜야 합니다.
캐시 관리에 대한 더 많은 정보를 위해선 Documentation/cachetlb.txt 를
캐시 관리에 대한 더 많은 정보를 위해선 Documentation/core-api/cachetlb.rst 를
참고하세요.
@ -3023,7 +3023,7 @@ smp_mb() 가 아니라 virt_mb() 를 사용해야 합니다.
동기화에 락을 사용하지 않고 구현하는데에 사용될 수 있습니다. 더 자세한 내용을
위해선 다음을 참고하세요:
Documentation/circular-buffers.txt
Documentation/core-api/circular-buffers.rst
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the driver should call vfio_add_group_dev() and vfio_del_group_dev()
respectively::
extern int vfio_add_group_dev(struct iommu_group *iommu_group,
struct device *dev,
extern int vfio_add_group_dev(struct device *dev,
const struct vfio_device_ops *ops,
void *device_data);
extern void *vfio_del_group_dev(struct device *dev);
vfio_add_group_dev() indicates to the core to begin tracking the
specified iommu_group and register the specified dev as owned by
iommu_group of the specified dev and register the dev as owned by
a VFIO bus driver. The driver provides an ops structure for callbacks
similar to a file operations structure::

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@ -1,62 +1,50 @@
00-INDEX
- this file.
active_mm.txt
active_mm.rst
- An explanation from Linus about tsk->active_mm vs tsk->mm.
balance
balance.rst
- various information on memory balancing.
cleancache.txt
cleancache.rst
- Intro to cleancache and page-granularity victim cache.
frontswap.txt
frontswap.rst
- Outline frontswap, part of the transcendent memory frontend.
highmem.txt
highmem.rst
- Outline of highmem and common issues.
hmm.txt
hmm.rst
- Documentation of heterogeneous memory management
hugetlbpage.txt
- a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in the Linux kernel.
hugetlbfs_reserv.txt
hugetlbfs_reserv.rst
- A brief overview of hugetlbfs reservation design/implementation.
hwpoison.txt
hwpoison.rst
- explains what hwpoison is
idle_page_tracking.txt
- description of the idle page tracking feature.
ksm.txt
ksm.rst
- how to use the Kernel Samepage Merging feature.
mmu_notifier.txt
mmu_notifier.rst
- a note about clearing pte/pmd and mmu notifications
numa
numa.rst
- information about NUMA specific code in the Linux vm.
numa_memory_policy.txt
- documentation of concepts and APIs of the 2.6 memory policy support.
overcommit-accounting
overcommit-accounting.rst
- description of the Linux kernels overcommit handling modes.
page_frags
page_frags.rst
- description of page fragments allocator
page_migration
page_migration.rst
- description of page migration in NUMA systems.
pagemap.txt
- pagemap, from the userspace perspective
page_owner.txt
page_owner.rst
- tracking about who allocated each page
remap_file_pages.txt
remap_file_pages.rst
- a note about remap_file_pages() system call
slub.txt
slub.rst
- a short users guide for SLUB.
soft-dirty.txt
- short explanation for soft-dirty PTEs
split_page_table_lock
split_page_table_lock.rst
- Separate per-table lock to improve scalability of the old page_table_lock.
swap_numa.txt
swap_numa.rst
- automatic binding of swap device to numa node
transhuge.txt
transhuge.rst
- Transparent Hugepage Support, alternative way of using hugepages.
unevictable-lru.txt
unevictable-lru.rst
- Unevictable LRU infrastructure
userfaultfd.txt
- description of userfaultfd system call
z3fold.txt
- outline of z3fold allocator for storing compressed pages
zsmalloc.txt
zsmalloc.rst
- outline of zsmalloc allocator for storing compressed pages
zswap.txt
zswap.rst
- Intro to compressed cache for swap pages

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