kernel/linux.git/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab, branch v5.15.208

docs: ABI: cleanup several ABI documents

2020-10-30T12:14:29+00:00

There are some ABI documents that, while they don't generate any warnings, they have issues when parsed by get_abi.pl script on its output result. Address them, in order to provide a clean output. Reviewed-by: Tom Rix # for fpga-manager Reviewed-By: Kajol Jain # for sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_gpci and sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-hv_24x7 Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron #for IIO Acked-by: Oded Gabbay # for Habanalabs Acked-by: Vaibhav Jain # for sysfs-bus-papr-pmem Acked-by: Cezary Rojewski # for catpt Acked-by: Suzuki K Poulose Acked-by: Ilya Dryomov # for rbd Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5bc78e5b68ed1e9e39135173857cb2e753be868f.1604042072.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, slab: extend slab/shrink to shrink all memcg caches

2019-09-24T22:54:07+00:00

Currently, a value of '1" is written to /sys/kernel/slab//shrink file to shrink the slab by flushing out all the per-cpu slabs and free slabs in partial lists. This can be useful to squeeze out a bit more memory under extreme condition as well as making the active object counts in /proc/slabinfo more accurate. This usually applies only to the root caches, as the SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON option is usually not enabled and "slub_memcg_sysfs=1" not set. Even if memcg sysfs is turned on, it is too cumbersome and impractical to manage all those per-memcg sysfs files in a real production system. So there is no practical way to shrink memcg caches. Fix this by enabling a proper write to the shrink sysfs file of the root cache to scan all the available memcg caches and shrink them as well. For a non-root memcg cache (when SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON or slub_memcg_sysfs is on), only that cache will be shrunk when written. On a 2-socket 64-core 256-thread arm64 system with 64k page after a parallel kernel build, the the amount of memory occupied by slabs before shrinking slabs were: # grep task_struct /proc/slabinfo task_struct 53137 53192 4288 61 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 872 872 0 # grep "^S[lRU]" /proc/meminfo Slab: 3936832 kB SReclaimable: 399104 kB SUnreclaim: 3537728 kB After shrinking slabs (by echoing "1" to all shrink files): # grep "^S[lRU]" /proc/meminfo Slab: 1356288 kB SReclaimable: 263296 kB SUnreclaim: 1092992 kB # grep task_struct /proc/slabinfo task_struct 2764 6832 4288 61 4 : tunables 0 0 0 : slabdata 112 112 0 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190723151445.7385-1-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Acked-by: Roman Gushchin Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Vladimir Davydov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

docs/vm: rename documentation files to .rst

2018-04-16T20:18:15+00:00

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved

2016-10-24T10:12:35+00:00

The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to the right places. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

slub: document setting min order with debug_guardpage_minorder > 0

2012-01-13T04:13:04+00:00

Acked-by: David Rientjes Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

slub: allow stats to be cleared

2009-10-15T18:34:12+00:00

When collecting slub stats for particular workloads, it's necessary to collect each statistic for all caches before the job is even started because the counters are usually greater than zero just from boot and initialization. This allows a statistic to be cleared on each cpu by writing '0' to its sysfs file. This creates a baseline for statistics of interest before the workload is started. Setting a statistic to a particular value is not supported, so all values written to these files other than '0' returns -EINVAL. Cc: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg

slub: add Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab

2009-04-28T11:30:35+00:00

Adds documentation for the slub ABI. This is placed in the `testing' directory since the meanings of these files are still subject to change as slub is developed. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg