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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-12-15 23:53:37 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-12-15 23:53:37 +0300 |
commit | ac73e3dc8acd0a3be292755db30388c3580f5674 (patch) | |
tree | 5abef6cb82b205b5dbbb69dca950b8a5aae716de /Documentation/core-api | |
parent | 148842c98a24e508aecb929718818fbf4c2a6ff3 (diff) | |
parent | dfefd226b0bf7c435a58d75a0ce2f9273b9825f6 (diff) | |
download | linux-ac73e3dc8acd0a3be292755db30388c3580f5674.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few random little subsystems
- almost all of the MM patches which are staged ahead of linux-next
material. I'll trickle to post-linux-next work in as the dependents
get merged up.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, kbuild, ide, ntfs,
ocfs2, arch, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, dax, debug, pagecache,
gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, hmm, vmalloc, documentation,
kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, vmscan, z3fold, compaction,
oom-kill, migration, cma, page-poison, userfaultfd, zswap, zsmalloc,
uaccess, zram, and cleanups).
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (200 commits)
mm: cleanup kstrto*() usage
mm: fix fall-through warnings for Clang
mm: slub: convert sysfs sprintf family to sysfs_emit/sysfs_emit_at
mm: shmem: convert shmem_enabled_show to use sysfs_emit_at
mm:backing-dev: use sysfs_emit in macro defining functions
mm: huge_memory: convert remaining use of sprintf to sysfs_emit and neatening
mm: use sysfs_emit for struct kobject * uses
mm: fix kernel-doc markups
zram: break the strict dependency from lzo
zram: add stat to gather incompressible pages since zram set up
zram: support page writeback
mm/process_vm_access: remove redundant initialization of iov_r
mm/zsmalloc.c: rework the list_add code in insert_zspage()
mm/zswap: move to use crypto_acomp API for hardware acceleration
mm/zswap: fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
mm/zswap: make struct kernel_param_ops definitions const
userfaultfd/selftests: hint the test runner on required privilege
userfaultfd/selftests: fix retval check for userfaultfd_open()
userfaultfd/selftests: always dump something in modes
userfaultfd: selftests: make __{s,u}64 format specifiers portable
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/core-api')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst | 6 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst index 4446a1ac36cc..5954ddf6ee13 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst @@ -147,6 +147,10 @@ The address of a chunk allocated with `kmalloc` is aligned to at least ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN bytes. For sizes which are a power of two, the alignment is also guaranteed to be at least the respective size. +Chunks allocated with kmalloc() can be resized with krealloc(). Similarly +to kmalloc_array(): a helper for resizing arrays is provided in the form of +krealloc_array(). + For large allocations you can use vmalloc() and vzalloc(), or directly request pages from the page allocator. The memory allocated by `vmalloc` and related functions is not physically contiguous. diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst index 7ca8c7bac650..fcf605be43d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst @@ -221,12 +221,12 @@ Unit testing ============ This file:: - tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c + tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_test.c has the following new calls to exercise the new pin*() wrapper functions: -* PIN_FAST_BENCHMARK (./gup_benchmark -a) -* PIN_BENCHMARK (./gup_benchmark -b) +* PIN_FAST_BENCHMARK (./gup_test -a) +* PIN_BASIC_TEST (./gup_test -b) You can monitor how many total dma-pinned pages have been acquired and released since the system was booted, via two new /proc/vmstat entries: :: |