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| author | Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> | 2024-03-26 17:10:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-04-25 20:56:15 -0700 |
| commit | 4dc7d37370951fe86216f03a4e0a6909f9b90a8c (patch) | |
| tree | 7bb17a1955a75bddade006c557f24dd3c4bb1bb6 /Documentation | |
| parent | 5e0debe012f31d6409b840920d0c37396d32ce30 (diff) | |
remove references to page->flags in documentation
Mostly rewording, but remove entirely the copy of page_fixed_fake_head()
in the documentation; we can refer people to the actual source if
necessary.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240326171045.410737-10-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/cachetlb.rst | 2 |
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst index ca7d9402f6be..46110e6a31bb 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst @@ -300,14 +300,14 @@ When oom event notifier is registered, event will be delivered. Lock order is as follows:: - Page lock (PG_locked bit of page->flags) + folio_lock mm->page_table_lock or split pte_lock folio_memcg_lock (memcg->move_lock) mapping->i_pages lock lruvec->lru_lock. Per-node-per-memcgroup LRU (cgroup's private LRU) is guarded by -lruvec->lru_lock; PG_lru bit of page->flags is cleared before +lruvec->lru_lock; the folio LRU flag is cleared before isolating a page from its LRU under lruvec->lru_lock. .. _cgroup-v1-memory-kernel-extension: diff --git a/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst b/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst index 593ede6d314b..b4a55b6569fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst @@ -180,27 +180,7 @@ this correctly. There is only **one** head ``struct page``, the tail ``struct page`` with ``PG_head`` are fake head ``struct page``. We need an approach to distinguish between those two different types of ``struct page`` so that ``compound_head()`` can return the real head ``struct page`` when the -parameter is the tail ``struct page`` but with ``PG_head``. The following code -snippet describes how to distinguish between real and fake head ``struct page``. - -.. code-block:: c - - if (test_bit(PG_head, &page->flags)) { - unsigned long head = READ_ONCE(page[1].compound_head); - - if (head & 1) { - if (head == (unsigned long)page + 1) - /* head struct page */ - else - /* tail struct page */ - } else { - /* head struct page */ - } - } - -We can safely access the field of the **page[1]** with ``PG_head`` because the -page is a compound page composed with at least two contiguous pages. -The implementation refers to ``page_fixed_fake_head()``. +parameter is the tail ``struct page`` but with ``PG_head``. Device DAX ========== diff --git a/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/cachetlb.rst b/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/cachetlb.rst index b4a76ec75daa..64295c61d1c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/cachetlb.rst +++ b/Documentation/translations/zh_CN/core-api/cachetlb.rst @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ HyperSparc cpu就是这样一个具有这种属性的cpu。 如果D-cache别名不是一个问题，这个程序可以简单地定义为该架构上 的nop。 - 在page->flags (PG_arch_1)中有一个位是“架构私有”。内核保证， + 在folio->flags (PG_arch_1)中有一个位是“架构私有”。内核保证， 对于分页缓存的页面，当这样的页面第一次进入分页缓存时，它将清除 这个位。 |