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2022-01-22mm: remove cleancacheChristoph Hellwig1-1/+0
Patch series "remove Xen tmem leftovers". Since the removal of the Xen tmem driver in 2019, the cleancache hooks are entirely unused, as are large parts of frontswap. This series against linux-next (with the folio changes included) removes cleancaches, and cuts down frontswap to the bits actually used by zswap. This patch (of 13): The cleancache subsystem is unused since the removal of Xen tmem driver in commit 814bbf49dcd0 ("xen: remove tmem driver"). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove now-unreachable code] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211224062246.1258487-1-hch@lst.de Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211224062246.1258487-2-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <Konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitaly.wool@konsulko.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-01-15mm: page table checkPasha Tatashin1-0/+1
Check user page table entries at the time they are added and removed. Allows to synchronously catch memory corruption issues related to double mapping. When a pte for an anonymous page is added into page table, we verify that this pte does not already point to a file backed page, and vice versa if this is a file backed page that is being added we verify that this page does not have an anonymous mapping We also enforce that read-only sharing for anonymous pages is allowed (i.e. cow after fork). All other sharing must be for file pages. Page table check allows to protect and debug cases where "struct page" metadata became corrupted for some reason. For example, when refcnt or mapcount become invalid. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211221154650.1047963-4-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-01-15docs/vm: add vmalloced-kernel-stacks documentShuah Khan1-0/+1
Add a new document to explain Virtually Mapped Kernel Stack Support. This is a compilation of information from the code and original patch series that introduced the Virtually Mapped Kernel Stacks feature. This document summarizes the feature and provides details on allocation, free, and stack overflow handling. Provides reference to available tests. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211215002004.47981-1-skhan@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-11-06Documentation/vm: move user guides to admin-guide/mm/SeongJae Park1-21/+5
Most memory management user guide documents are in 'admin-guide/mm/', but two of those are in 'vm/'. This moves the two docs into 'admin-guide/mm' for easier documents finding. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210917123958.3819-2-sj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-09-08Documentation: add documents for DAMONSeongJae Park1-0/+1
This commit adds documents for DAMON under `Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon/` and `Documentation/vm/damon/`. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210716081449.22187-11-sj38.park@gmail.com Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de> Reviewed-by: Fernand Sieber <sieberf@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Boehme <markubo@amazon.de> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Amit Shah <amit@kernel.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.com> Cc: Fan Du <fan.du@intel.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Leonard Foerster <foersleo@amazon.de> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@amazon.de> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-09-10docs: add some new files to their respective index.rst filesMauro Carvalho Chehab1-0/+1
There were some new file additions for Kernel 5.7 and 5.8 that weren't added at the corresponding index file. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9fd4d04f0d122ff38b5342a0098d99cc2f546652.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-04-20docs: vm: index.rst: add an orphan doc to the building systemMauro Carvalho Chehab1-0/+1
The new free_page_reporting.rst file is not listed at the index. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/146432ae6965a2bb62c929a6b62f9d4010986622.1586881715.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-04-30docs/vm: add documentation of memory modelsMike Rapoport1-0/+1
Describe what {FLAT,DISCONTIG,SPARSE}MEM are and how they manage to maintain pfn <-> struct page correspondence. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-02-01docs: Use underscore not hyphen in labelTobin C. Harding1-1/+1
sphinx emits warning WARNING: undefined label: memory-allocation ... This seems to be caused by the use of a hyphen in the label name instead of an underscore. Using an underscore for the label name and the reference clears the warning. Use underscore not hyphen in label and reference. Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <tobin@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-11-20Link the memory allocation guide from the MM docsMatthew Wilcox1-1/+3
I just went looking for the memory allocation guide in the MM docs instead of in the core API. For the benefit of the next person who makes that mistake, link to it from the MM docs. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-29docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section.Mike Rapoport1-2/+2
After the userspace interface description for KSM and THP was split to Documentation/admin-guide/mm, the remaining parts belong to the section describing MM internals. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-08docs/vm: move numa_memory_policy.rst to Documentation/admin-guide/mmMike Rapoport1-1/+0
The document describes userspace API and as such it belongs to Documentation/admin-guide/mm Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-27docs/admin-guide/mm: start moving here files from Documentation/vmMike Rapoport1-5/+0
Several documents in Documentation/vm fit quite well into the "admin/user guide" category. The documents that don't overload the reader with lots of implementation details and provide coherent description of certain feature can be moved to Documentation/admin-guide/mm. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-04-16docs/vm: add index.rst and link MM documentation to top level indexMike Rapoport1-0/+56
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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