linux-stable/Documentation/core-api
Linus Torvalds 7fa8a8ee94 - Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of
switching from a user process to a kernel thread.
 
 - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj Raghav.
 
 - zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky.
 
 - Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the
   alteration of memcg userspace tunables.
 
 - VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig:
 
   - removal of most of the callers of write_one_page().
 
   - make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful
 
 - Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap
   backing.  Use `mount -o noswap'.
 
 - Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing
   some scalability benefits.
 
 - Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its
   operations O(1) rather than O(n).
 
 - Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd,
   permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes.
 
 - Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive rather
   than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were caused by its
   unintuitive meaning.
 
 - Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature,
   which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte.
 
 - Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge():
   cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test
   harness.
 
 - Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes.
 
 - Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various
   mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c.
 
 - Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for
   DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more.
 
 - Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators
   and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases.
 
 - Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge().
 
 - Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code.
 
 - Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping
   locks in ->map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults.
 
 - Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to
   per-VMA locking.
 
 - Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it
   no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads.
 
 - Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig
   logic.
 
 - Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a
   chunk of memory if zswap is not being used.
 
 - Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics flushing.
 
 - David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged,
   userfaultfd and shmem.
 
 - Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related
   code paths.
 
 - David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's
   testing of our pte state changing.
 
 - Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it.
 
 - Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd
   selftests.
 
 - Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim accounting.
 
 - Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the
   selftests/mm code.
 
 - Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned
   pages.
 
 - Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time.
 
 - Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a
   per-process and per-cgroup basis.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of
   switching from a user process to a kernel thread.

 - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj
   Raghav.

 - zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky.

 - Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the
   alteration of memcg userspace tunables.

 - VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig:
     - removal of most of the callers of write_one_page()
     - make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful

 - Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap
   backing. Use `mount -o noswap'.

 - Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing
   some scalability benefits.

 - Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its
   operations O(1) rather than O(n).

 - Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd,
   permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes.

 - Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive
   rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were
   caused by its unintuitive meaning.

 - Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature,
   which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte.

 - Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge():
   cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test
   harness.

 - Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes.

 - Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various
   mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c.

 - Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for
   DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more.

 - Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators
   and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases.

 - Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge().

 - Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code.

 - Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping
   locks in ->map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults.

 - Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to
   per-VMA locking.

 - Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it
   no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads.

 - Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig
   logic.

 - Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a
   chunk of memory if zswap is not being used.

 - Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics
   flushing.

 - David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged,
   userfaultfd and shmem.

 - Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related
   code paths.

 - David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's
   testing of our pte state changing.

 - Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it.

 - Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd
   selftests.

 - Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim
   accounting.

 - Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the
   selftests/mm code.

 - Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned
   pages.

 - Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time.

 - Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a
   per-process and per-cgroup basis.

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
  mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible
  shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace
  mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file()
  sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc
  mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area()
  hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map()
  maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area()
  mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries
  zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context
  selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM
  mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs
  mm: add new api to enable ksm per process
  mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions
  mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions
  migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry
  userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma()
  lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code
  mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list()
  fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers
  fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper
  ...
2023-04-27 19:42:02 -07:00
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irq Documentation: irqdomain: Fix typo of "at least once" 2022-08-18 11:11:52 -06:00
wrappers docs: put atomic*.txt and memory-barriers.txt into the core-api book 2022-09-29 12:55:06 -06:00
asm-annotations.rst docs: move x86 documentation into Documentation/arch/ 2023-03-30 12:58:51 -06:00
assoc_array.rst
boot-time-mm.rst
cachetlb.rst
circular-buffers.rst
cpu_hotplug.rst Remove duplicate words inside documentation 2022-09-27 13:21:43 -06:00
debug-objects.rst
debugging-via-ohci1394.rst
dma-api-howto.rst dma-api-howto: typo fix 2023-04-10 16:46:11 -06:00
dma-api.rst docs/mm: Physical Memory: remove useless markup 2023-02-02 10:18:04 -07:00
dma-attributes.rst Reinstate some of "swiotlb: rework "fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE"" 2022-03-28 11:37:05 -07:00
dma-isa-lpc.rst
entry.rst Documentation: core-api: entry: Add comments about nesting 2022-01-27 11:32:40 -07:00
errseq.rst
genalloc.rst
generic-radix-tree.rst
genericirq.rst
gfp_mask-from-fs-io.rst
idr.rst IDR: Note that the IDR API is deprecated 2022-07-10 21:17:30 -04:00
index.rst docs: add more netlink docs (incl. spec docs) 2023-01-24 10:58:11 +01:00
kernel-api.rst module: add debug stats to help identify memory pressure 2023-04-18 11:15:24 -07:00
kobject.rst kobject documentation: remove default_attrs information 2022-01-07 11:23:37 +01:00
kref.rst
librs.rst
local_ops.rst timers: Update the documentation to reflect on the new timer_shutdown() API 2022-11-24 15:09:12 +01:00
maple_tree.rst Maple Tree: add new data structure 2022-09-26 19:46:13 -07:00
memory-allocation.rst mm/slab: document kfree() as allowed for kmem_cache_alloc() objects 2023-03-29 10:35:41 +02:00
memory-hotplug.rst
mm-api.rst mm/page_alloc: remove obsolete gfpflags_normal_context() 2022-10-03 14:03:30 -07:00
netlink.rst docs: add more netlink docs (incl. spec docs) 2023-01-24 10:58:11 +01:00
packing.rst Documentation: core-api: packing: correct spelling 2023-02-15 21:40:54 -08:00
padata.rst Documentation: core-api: padata: correct spelling 2023-02-16 16:58:01 -07:00
pin_user_pages.rst mm: remove folio_pincount_ptr() and head_compound_pincount() 2023-02-02 22:32:54 -08:00
printk-basics.rst
printk-formats.rst mm, printk: introduce new format %pGt for page_type 2023-03-28 16:20:09 -07:00
printk-index.rst printk/index: Printk index feature documentation 2022-04-13 14:25:31 +02:00
protection-keys.rst Documentation/protection-keys: Clean up documentation for User Space pkeys 2022-06-07 16:06:22 -07:00
rbtree.rst
refcount-vs-atomic.rst
symbol-namespaces.rst doc: module: update file references 2022-07-01 14:50:01 -07:00
this_cpu_ops.rst
timekeeping.rst timekeeping: Introduce fast accessor to clock tai 2022-04-14 16:19:30 +02:00
tracepoint.rst
unaligned-memory-access.rst
watch_queue.rst Documentation: move watch_queue to core-api 2022-04-22 09:47:25 -06:00
workqueue.rst docs: ftrace: always use canonical ftrace path 2023-01-31 14:02:30 -07:00
xarray.rst XArray: Document the locking requirement for the xa_state 2022-02-03 15:56:50 -05:00