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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-10-04 12:19:12 +0200
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-10-04 12:19:12 +0200
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Merge tag 'v5.9-rc7' into patchwork
Linux 5.9-rc7 * tag 'v5.9-rc7': (683 commits) Linux 5.9-rc7 mm/thp: Split huge pmds/puds if they're pinned when fork() mm: Do early cow for pinned pages during fork() for ptes mm/fork: Pass new vma pointer into copy_page_range() mm: Introduce mm_struct.has_pinned mm: validate pmd after splitting mm: don't rely on system state to detect hot-plug operations mm: replace memmap_context by meminit_context arch/x86/lib/usercopy_64.c: fix __copy_user_flushcache() cache writeback lib/memregion.c: include memregion.h lib/string.c: implement stpcpy mm/migrate: correct thp migration stats mm/gup: fix gup_fast with dynamic page table folding mm: memcontrol: fix missing suffix of workingset_restore mm, THP, swap: fix allocating cluster for swapfile by mistake mm: slab: fix potential double free in ___cache_free Documentation/llvm: Fix clang target examples io_uring: ensure async buffered read-retry is setup properly KVM: SVM: Add a dedicated INVD intercept routine io_uring: don't unconditionally set plug->nowait = true ...
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@@ -182,9 +182,6 @@ in the order of reservations, but only after all previous records where
already committed. It is thus possible for slow producers to temporarily hold
off submitted records, that were reserved later.
-Reservation/commit/consumer protocol is verified by litmus tests in
-Documentation/litmus_tests/bpf-rb/_.
-
One interesting implementation bit, that significantly simplifies (and thus
speeds up as well) implementation of both producers and consumers is how data
area is mapped twice contiguously back-to-back in the virtual memory. This
@@ -200,7 +197,7 @@ a self-pacing notifications of new data being availability.
being available after commit only if consumer has already caught up right up to
the record being committed. If not, consumer still has to catch up and thus
will see new data anyways without needing an extra poll notification.
-Benchmarks (see tools/testing/selftests/bpf/benchs/bench_ringbuf.c_) show that
+Benchmarks (see tools/testing/selftests/bpf/benchs/bench_ringbufs.c) show that
this allows to achieve a very high throughput without having to resort to
tricks like "notify only every Nth sample", which are necessary with perf
buffer. For extreme cases, when BPF program wants more manual control of