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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-03-22 17:03:12 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-03-22 17:03:12 -0700
commit9030fb0bb9d607908d51f9ee02efdbe01da355ee (patch)
tree9ee1d9d47fbb4b30c7f5cbc291432e666e58967a /Documentation/core-api
parent3bf03b9a0839c9fb06927ae53ebd0f960b19d408 (diff)
parent2a3c4bce3edb0d54983384aa8a88c0da330638f4 (diff)
Merge tag 'folio-5.18c' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache
Pull folio updates from Matthew Wilcox: - Rewrite how munlock works to massively reduce the contention on i_mmap_rwsem (Hugh Dickins): https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/8e4356d-9622-a7f0-b2c-f116b5f2efea@google.com/ - Sort out the page refcount mess for ZONE_DEVICE pages (Christoph Hellwig): https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20220210072828.2930359-1-hch@lst.de/ - Convert GUP to use folios and make pincount available for order-1 pages. (Matthew Wilcox) - Convert a few more truncation functions to use folios (Matthew Wilcox) - Convert page_vma_mapped_walk to use PFNs instead of pages (Matthew Wilcox) - Convert rmap_walk to use folios (Matthew Wilcox) - Convert most of shrink_page_list() to use a folio (Matthew Wilcox) - Add support for creating large folios in readahead (Matthew Wilcox) * tag 'folio-5.18c' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/pagecache: (114 commits) mm/damon: minor cleanup for damon_pa_young selftests/vm/transhuge-stress: Support file-backed PMD folios mm/filemap: Support VM_HUGEPAGE for file mappings mm/readahead: Switch to page_cache_ra_order mm/readahead: Align file mappings for non-DAX mm/readahead: Add large folio readahead mm: Support arbitrary THP sizes mm: Make large folios depend on THP mm: Fix READ_ONLY_THP warning mm/filemap: Allow large folios to be added to the page cache mm: Turn can_split_huge_page() into can_split_folio() mm/vmscan: Convert pageout() to take a folio mm/vmscan: Turn page_check_references() into folio_check_references() mm/vmscan: Account large folios correctly mm/vmscan: Optimise shrink_page_list for non-PMD-sized folios mm/vmscan: Free non-shmem folios without splitting them mm/rmap: Constify the rmap_walk_control argument mm/rmap: Convert rmap_walk() to take a folio mm: Turn page_anon_vma() into folio_anon_vma() mm/rmap: Turn page_lock_anon_vma_read() into folio_lock_anon_vma_read() ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
index fcf605be43d0..b18416f4500f 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst
@@ -55,18 +55,18 @@ flags the caller provides. The caller is required to pass in a non-null struct
pages* array, and the function then pins pages by incrementing each by a special
value: GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS.
-For huge pages (and in fact, any compound page of more than 2 pages), the
-GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS scheme is not used. Instead, an exact form of pin counting
-is achieved, by using the 3rd struct page in the compound page. A new struct
-page field, hpage_pinned_refcount, has been added in order to support this.
+For compound pages, the GUP_PIN_COUNTING_BIAS scheme is not used. Instead,
+an exact form of pin counting is achieved, by using the 2nd struct page
+in the compound page. A new struct page field, compound_pincount, has
+been added in order to support this.
This approach for compound pages avoids the counting upper limit problems that
are discussed below. Those limitations would have been aggravated severely by
huge pages, because each tail page adds a refcount to the head page. And in
-fact, testing revealed that, without a separate hpage_pinned_refcount field,
+fact, testing revealed that, without a separate compound_pincount field,
page overflows were seen in some huge page stress tests.
-This also means that huge pages and compound pages (of order > 1) do not suffer
+This also means that huge pages and compound pages do not suffer
from the false positives problem that is mentioned below.::
Function
@@ -264,9 +264,9 @@ place.)
Other diagnostics
=================
-dump_page() has been enhanced slightly, to handle these new counting fields, and
-to better report on compound pages in general. Specifically, for compound pages
-with order > 1, the exact (hpage_pinned_refcount) pincount is reported.
+dump_page() has been enhanced slightly, to handle these new counting
+fields, and to better report on compound pages in general. Specifically,
+for compound pages, the exact (compound_pincount) pincount is reported.
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