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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-01-09 11:18:47 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-01-09 11:18:47 -0800
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-01-08-15-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are included in this merge do the following: - Peng Zhang has done some mapletree maintainance work in the series 'maple_tree: add mt_free_one() and mt_attr() helpers' 'Some cleanups of maple tree' - In the series 'mm: use memmap_on_memory semantics for dax/kmem' Vishal Verma has altered the interworking between memory-hotplug and dax/kmem so that newly added 'device memory' can more easily have its memmap placed within that newly added memory. - Matthew Wilcox continues folio-related work (including a few fixes) in the patch series 'Add folio_zero_tail() and folio_fill_tail()' 'Make folio_start_writeback return void' 'Fix fault handler's handling of poisoned tail pages' 'Convert aops->error_remove_page to ->error_remove_folio' 'Finish two folio conversions' 'More swap folio conversions' - Kefeng Wang has also contributed folio-related work in the series 'mm: cleanup and use more folio in page fault' - Jim Cromie has improved the kmemleak reporting output in the series 'tweak kmemleak report format'. - In the series 'stackdepot: allow evicting stack traces' Andrey Konovalov to permits clients (in this case KASAN) to cause eviction of no longer needed stack traces. - Charan Teja Kalla has fixed some accounting issues in the page allocator's atomic reserve calculations in the series 'mm: page_alloc: fixes for high atomic reserve caluculations'. - Dmitry Rokosov has added to the samples/ dorectory some sample code for a userspace memcg event listener application. See the series 'samples: introduce cgroup events listeners'. - Some mapletree maintanance work from Liam Howlett in the series 'maple_tree: iterator state changes'. - Nhat Pham has improved zswap's approach to writeback in the series 'workload-specific and memory pressure-driven zswap writeback'. - DAMON/DAMOS feature and maintenance work from SeongJae Park in the series 'mm/damon: let users feed and tame/auto-tune DAMOS' 'selftests/damon: add Python-written DAMON functionality tests' 'mm/damon: misc updates for 6.8' - Yosry Ahmed has improved memcg's stats flushing in the series 'mm: memcg: subtree stats flushing and thresholds'. - In the series 'Multi-size THP for anonymous memory' Ryan Roberts has added a runtime opt-in feature to transparent hugepages which improves performance by allocating larger chunks of memory during anonymous page faults. - Matthew Wilcox has also contributed some cleanup and maintenance work against eh buffer_head code int he series 'More buffer_head cleanups'. - Suren Baghdasaryan has done work on Andrea Arcangeli's series 'userfaultfd move option'. UFFDIO_MOVE permits userspace heap compaction algorithms to move userspace's pages around rather than UFFDIO_COPY'a alloc/copy/free. - Stefan Roesch has developed a 'KSM Advisor', in the series 'mm/ksm: Add ksm advisor'. This is a governor which tunes KSM's scanning aggressiveness in response to userspace's current needs. - Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's temporary working memory use in the series 'mm/zswap: dstmem reuse optimizations and cleanups'. - Matthew Wilcox has performed some maintenance work on the writeback code, both code and within filesystems. The series is 'Clean up the writeback paths'. - Andrey Konovalov has optimized KASAN's handling of alloc and free stack traces for secondary-level allocators, in the series 'kasan: save mempool stack traces'. - Andrey also performed some KASAN maintenance work in the series 'kasan: assorted clean-ups'. - David Hildenbrand has gone to town on the rmap code. Cleanups, more pte batching, folio conversions and more. See the series 'mm/rmap: interface overhaul'. - Kinsey Ho has contributed some maintenance work on the MGLRU code in the series 'mm/mglru: Kconfig cleanup'. - Matthew Wilcox has contributed lruvec page accounting code cleanups in the series 'Remove some lruvec page accounting functions'" * tag 'mm-stable-2024-01-08-15-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (361 commits) mm, treewide: rename MAX_ORDER to MAX_PAGE_ORDER mm, treewide: introduce NR_PAGE_ORDERS selftests/mm: add separate UFFDIO_MOVE test for PMD splitting selftests/mm: skip test if application doesn't has root privileges selftests/mm: conform test to TAP format output selftests: mm: hugepage-mmap: conform to TAP format output selftests/mm: gup_test: conform test to TAP format output mm/selftests: hugepage-mremap: conform test to TAP format output mm/vmstat: move pgdemote_* out of CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING mm: zsmalloc: return -ENOSPC rather than -EINVAL in zs_malloc while size is too large mm/memcontrol: remove __mod_lruvec_page_state() mm/khugepaged: use a folio more in collapse_file() slub: use a folio in __kmalloc_large_node slub: use folio APIs in free_large_kmalloc() slub: use alloc_pages_node() in alloc_slab_page() mm: remove inc/dec lruvec page state functions mm: ratelimit stat flush from workingset shrinker kasan: stop leaking stack trace handles mm/mglru: remove CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE mm/mglru: add dummy pmd_dirty() ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 65731b060e3f..8a01b8112f0b 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -970,17 +970,17 @@
buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
- possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter
- to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
- memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
- driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
- random memory location. Note that there exists a class
- of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
- F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA (basically when
- memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
- bypassed) which are not detectable by
- CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
- tracking down these problems.
+ possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2. Setting this
+ parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most
+ random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in
+ kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads
+ from) a random memory location. Note that there exists
+ a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy
+ H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA
+ (basically when memory is written at bus level and the
+ CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by
+ CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not
+ help tracking down these problems.
debug_pagealloc=
[KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter
@@ -4136,7 +4136,7 @@
[KNL] Minimal page reporting order
Format: <integer>
Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page
- reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_ORDER.
+ reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER.
panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout>
timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting