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| author | Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> | 2024-09-30 11:49:10 +0300 |
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| committer | Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> | 2024-09-30 11:49:10 +0300 |
| commit | e0568571258d096f0277c74185bcbfc9cf21bccb (patch) | |
| tree | a380953643dbb86bffaa862d11e58eba22697988 /Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst | |
| parent | 9d5a05f86d2f4f81abcac6abc856c0d511a8607b (diff) | |
| parent | 9852d85ec9d492ebef56dc5f229416c925758edc (diff) | |
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next
Sync to v6.12-rc1.
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst | 22 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst index f1ce67a26615..519b35a4caf5 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/page_migration.rst @@ -63,15 +63,15 @@ and then a low level description of how the low level details work. In kernel use of migrate_pages() ================================ -1. Remove pages from the LRU. +1. Remove folios from the LRU. - Lists of pages to be migrated are generated by scanning over - pages and moving them into lists. This is done by - calling isolate_lru_page(). - Calling isolate_lru_page() increases the references to the page - so that it cannot vanish while the page migration occurs. + Lists of folios to be migrated are generated by scanning over + folios and moving them into lists. This is done by + calling folio_isolate_lru(). + Calling folio_isolate_lru() increases the references to the folio + so that it cannot vanish while the folio migration occurs. It also prevents the swapper or other scans from encountering - the page. + the folio. 2. We need to have a function of type new_folio_t that can be passed to migrate_pages(). This function should figure out @@ -84,10 +84,10 @@ In kernel use of migrate_pages() How migrate_pages() works ========================= -migrate_pages() does several passes over its list of pages. A page is moved -if all references to a page are removable at the time. The page has -already been removed from the LRU via isolate_lru_page() and the refcount -is increased so that the page cannot be freed while page migration occurs. +migrate_pages() does several passes over its list of folios. A folio is moved +if all references to a folio are removable at the time. The folio has +already been removed from the LRU via folio_isolate_lru() and the refcount +is increased so that the folio cannot be freed while folio migration occurs. Steps: |