kernel/linux.git/Documentation/admin-guide/mm, branch v5.10.257

drivers/base/memory: don't store phys_device in memory blocks

2021-03-17T16:06:25+00:00

[ Upstream commit e9a2e48e8704c9d20a625c6f2357147d03ea7b97 ] No need to store the value for each and every memory block, as we can easily query the value at runtime. Reshuffle the members to optimize the memory layout. Also, let's clarify what the interface once was used for and why it's legacy nowadays. "phys_device" was used on s390x in older versions of lsmem[2]/chmem[3], back when they were still part of s390x-tools. They were later replaced by the variants in linux-utils. For example, RHEL6 and RHEL7 contain lsmem/chmem from s390-utils. RHEL8 switched to versions from util-linux on s390x [4]. "phys_device" was added with sysfs support for memory hotplug in commit 3947be1969a9 ("[PATCH] memory hotplug: sysfs and add/remove functions") in 2005. It always returned 0. s390x started returning something != 0 on some setups (if sclp.rzm is set by HW) in 2010 via commit 57b552ba0b2f ("memory hotplug/s390: set phys_device"). For s390x, it allowed for identifying which memory block devices belong to the same storage increment (RZM). Only if all memory block devices comprising a single storage increment were offline, the memory could actually be removed in the hypervisor. Since commit e5d709bb5fb7 ("s390/memory hotplug: provide memory_block_size_bytes() function") in 2013 a memory block device spans at least one storage increment - which is why the interface isn't really helpful/used anymore (except by old lsmem/chmem tools). There were once RFC patches to make use of "phys_device" in ACPI context; however, the underlying problem could be solved using different interfaces [1]. [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2163871/ [2] https://github.com/ibm-s390-tools/s390-tools/blob/v2.1.0/zconf/lsmem [3] https://github.com/ibm-s390-tools/s390-tools/blob/v2.1.0/zconf/chmem [4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1504134 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210201181347.13262-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand Acked-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Ilya Dryomov Cc: Vaibhav Jain Cc: Tom Rix Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

Merge tag 'acpi-5.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

2020-10-14T18:42:04+00:00

Pull ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki: "These add support for generic initiator-only proximity domains to the ACPI NUMA code and the architectures using it, clean up some non-ACPICA code referring to debug facilities from ACPICA, reduce the overhead related to accessing GPE registers, add a new DPTF (Dynamic Power and Thermal Framework) participant driver, update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision 20200925, add a new ACPI backlight whitelist entry, fix a few assorted issues and clean up some code. Specifics: - Add support for generic initiator-only proximity domains to the ACPI NUMA code and the architectures using it (Jonathan Cameron) - Clean up some non-ACPICA code referring to debug facilities from ACPICA that are not actually used in there (Hanjun Guo) - Add new DPTF driver for the PCH FIVR participant (Srinivas Pandruvada) - Reduce overhead related to accessing GPE registers in ACPICA and the OS interface layer and make it possible to access GPE registers using logical addresses if they are memory-mapped (Rafael Wysocki) - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision 20200925 including changes as follows: + Add predefined names from the SMBus sepcification (Bob Moore) + Update acpi_help UUID list (Bob Moore) + Return exceptions for string-to-integer conversions in iASL (Bob Moore) + Add a new "ALL " debugger command (Bob Moore) + Add support for 64 bit risc-v compilation (Colin Ian King) + Do assorted cleanups (Bob Moore, Colin Ian King, Randy Dunlap) - Add new ACPI backlight whitelist entry for HP 635 Notebook (Alex Hung) - Move TPS68470 OpRegion driver to drivers/acpi/pmic/ and split out Kconfig and Makefile specific for ACPI PMIC (Andy Shevchenko) - Clean up the ACPI SoC driver for AMD SoCs (Hanjun Guo) - Add missing config_item_put() to fix refcount leak (Hanjun Guo) - Drop lefrover field from struct acpi_memory_device (Hanjun Guo) - Make the ACPI extlog driver check for RDMSR failures (Ben Hutchings) - Fix handling of lid state changes in the ACPI button driver when input device is closed (Dmitry Torokhov) - Fix several assorted build issues (Barnabás Pőcze, John Garry, Nathan Chancellor, Tian Tao) - Drop unused inline functions and reduce code duplication by using kobj_to_dev() in the NFIT parsing code (YueHaibing, Wang Qing) - Serialize tools/power/acpi Makefile (Thomas Renninger)" * tag 'acpi-5.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (64 commits) ACPICA: Update version to 20200925 Version 20200925 ACPICA: Remove unnecessary semicolon ACPICA: Debugger: Add a new command: "ALL " ACPICA: iASL: Return exceptions for string-to-integer conversions ACPICA: acpi_help: Update UUID list ACPICA: Add predefined names found in the SMBus sepcification ACPICA: Tree-wide: fix various typos and spelling mistakes ACPICA: Drop the repeated word "an" in a comment ACPICA: Add support for 64 bit risc-v compilation ACPI: button: fix handling lid state changes when input device closed tools/power/acpi: Serialize Makefile ACPI: scan: Replace ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT() with pr_debug() ACPI: memhotplug: Remove 'state' from struct acpi_memory_device ACPI / extlog: Check for RDMSR failure ACPI: Make acpi_evaluate_dsm() prototype consistent docs: mm: numaperf.rst Add brief description for access class 1. node: Add access1 class to represent CPU to memory characteristics ACPI: HMAT: Fix handling of changes from ACPI 6.2 to ACPI 6.3 ACPI: Let ACPI know we support Generic Initiator Affinity Structures x86: Support Generic Initiator only proximity domains ...

doc/vm: fix typo in the hugetlb admin documentation

2020-10-14T01:38:33+00:00

Change 'pecify' to 'Specify'. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand Cc: Anshuman Khandual Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200723032248.24772-4-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

docs: mm: numaperf.rst Add brief description for access class 1.

2020-10-02T16:51:57+00:00

Try to make minimal changes to the document which already describes access class 0 in a generic fashion (including IO initiatiors that are not CPUs). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

Merge tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2020-08-05T05:47:54+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a while to come. Changes include: - Some new Chinese translations - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS URLs - Some block-mq documentation - More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or something...:) - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more" * tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits) scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors docs: ia64: correct typo mailmap: add entry for doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location devices.txt: document rfkill allocation PCI: correct flag name docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory ...

docs: admin-guide/mm/index: Fix reference to nonexistent document

2020-07-23T20:21:37+00:00

Fix the following warning: WARNING: toctree contains reference to nonexistent document 'admin-guide/mm/nommu-map' This was due to a typo. Signed-off-by: Daniel W. S. Almeida Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200718165107.625847-1-dwlsalmeida@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

docs/mm: concepts.rst: remove unnecessary word

2020-07-23T20:02:58+00:00

Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury Acked-by: Mike Rapoport Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200721112251.6100-1-unixbhaskar@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: numaperf: eliminate duplicated word

2020-07-13T15:44:05+00:00

Drop the duplicated word "not". Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mike Rapoport Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200707180414.10467-2-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: Documentation/admin-guide

2020-07-05T20:13:00+00:00

Rationale: Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate. Deterministic algorithm: For each file: If not .svg: For each line: If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`: For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`: If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions return 200 OK and serve the same content: Replace HTTP with HTTPS. Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200627072935.62652-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation/admin-guide: mm/ksm: drop doubled word

2020-07-05T20:01:48+00:00

Drop the doubled word "the". Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200704032020.21923-6-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet