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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/remap_file_pages.txt | 7 |
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt b/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt index 142fbb0f325a..01d76282444e 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ lock the page to ensure serial behavior. CLEANCACHE PERFORMANCE METRICS If properly configured, monitoring of cleancache is done via debugfs in -the /sys/kernel/debug/mm/cleancache directory. The effectiveness of cleancache +the /sys/kernel/debug/cleancache directory. The effectiveness of cleancache can be measured (across all filesystems) with: succ_gets - number of gets that were successful diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt index 5948e455c4d2..6fbd55ef6b45 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt @@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ There are three components to pagemap: 20. NOPAGE 21. KSM 22. THP + 23. BALLOON + 24. ZERO_PAGE Short descriptions to the page flags: @@ -102,6 +104,12 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags: 22. THP contiguous pages which construct transparent hugepages +23. BALLOON + balloon compaction page + +24. ZERO_PAGE + zero page for pfn_zero or huge_zero page + [IO related page flags] 1. ERROR IO error occurred 3. UPTODATE page has up-to-date data diff --git a/Documentation/vm/remap_file_pages.txt b/Documentation/vm/remap_file_pages.txt index 560e4363a55d..f609142f406a 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/remap_file_pages.txt +++ b/Documentation/vm/remap_file_pages.txt @@ -18,10 +18,9 @@ on 32-bit systems to map files bigger than can linearly fit into 32-bit virtual address space. This use-case is not critical anymore since 64-bit systems are widely available. -The plan is to deprecate the syscall and replace it with an emulation. -The emulation will create new VMAs instead of nonlinear mappings. It's -going to work slower for rare users of remap_file_pages() but ABI is -preserved. +The syscall is deprecated and replaced it with an emulation now. The +emulation creates new VMAs instead of nonlinear mappings. It's going to +work slower for rare users of remap_file_pages() but ABI is preserved. One side effect of emulation (apart from performance) is that user can hit vm.max_map_count limit more easily due to additional VMAs. See comment for |