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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-02-24 16:20:38 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-02-24 16:20:38 -0800 |
commit | 4c48faba5b7f18fb53e4aeeb768932f17c9da1ed (patch) | |
tree | 9d9d2ca881a670b5df55a663ee506f212c9514c3 /Documentation/admin-guide | |
parent | 062c84fccc4444805738d76a2699c4d3c95184ec (diff) | |
parent | a553e3cd2053501b658feec2be9a3b662eb1b22b (diff) |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"A few small subsystems and some of MM.
172 patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: hexagon, scripts, ntfs,
ocfs2, vfs, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, debug, pagecache, swap,
memcg, pagemap, mprotect, mremap, page-reporting, vmalloc, kasan,
pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, vmscan, z3fold, compaction,
mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, and migration)"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (172 commits)
mm/migrate: remove unneeded semicolons
hugetlbfs: remove unneeded return value of hugetlb_vmtruncate()
hugetlbfs: fix some comment typos
hugetlbfs: correct some obsolete comments about inode i_mutex
hugetlbfs: make hugepage size conversion more readable
hugetlbfs: remove meaningless variable avoid_reserve
hugetlbfs: correct obsolete function name in hugetlbfs_read_iter()
hugetlbfs: use helper macro default_hstate in init_hugetlbfs_fs
hugetlbfs: remove useless BUG_ON(!inode) in hugetlbfs_setattr()
hugetlbfs: remove special hugetlbfs_set_page_dirty()
mm/hugetlb: change hugetlb_reserve_pages() to type bool
mm, oom: fix a comment in dump_task()
mm/mempolicy: use helper range_in_vma() in queue_pages_test_walk()
numa balancing: migrate on fault among multiple bound nodes
mm, compaction: make fast_isolate_freepages() stay within zone
mm/compaction: fix misbehaviors of fast_find_migrateblock()
mm/compaction: correct deferral logic for proactive compaction
mm/compaction: remove duplicated VM_BUG_ON_PAGE !PageLocked
mm/compaction: remove rcu_read_lock during page compaction
z3fold: simplify the zhdr initialization code in init_z3fold_page()
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst | 10 |
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst index c513eafaddea..9acc57f68f31 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst @@ -1299,6 +1299,10 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back. Amount of cached filesystem data that was modified and is currently being written back to disk + swapcached + Amount of swap cached in memory. The swapcache is accounted + against both memory and swap usage. + anon_thp Amount of memory used in anonymous mappings backed by transparent hugepages diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 186ad235bf32..bab6a8b01202 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -4904,14 +4904,6 @@ last alloc / free. For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst. - slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB] - Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for - memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable. - The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON. - Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug - directories and files being created under - /sys/kernel/slub. - slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB] Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs. A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst index e35a3f2fb006..586cd4b86428 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst @@ -983,11 +983,11 @@ that benefit from having their data cached, zone_reclaim_mode should be left disabled as the caching effect is likely to be more important than data locality. -zone_reclaim may be enabled if it's known that the workload is partitioned -such that each partition fits within a NUMA node and that accessing remote -memory would cause a measurable performance reduction. The page allocator -will then reclaim easily reusable pages (those page cache pages that are -currently not used) before allocating off node pages. +Consider enabling one or more zone_reclaim mode bits if it's known that the +workload is partitioned such that each partition fits within a NUMA node +and that accessing remote memory would cause a measurable performance +reduction. The page allocator will take additional actions before +allocating off node pages. Allowing zone reclaim to write out pages stops processes that are writing large amounts of data from dirtying pages on other nodes. Zone |