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Vlastimil Babka af3b5f8764 mm, slab: rename kmalloc-node cache to kmalloc-<size>
SLAB as part of its bootstrap pre-creates one kmalloc cache that can fit
the kmem_cache_node management structure, and puts it into the generic
kmalloc cache array (e.g. for 128b objects).  The name of this cache is
"kmalloc-node", which is confusing for readers of /proc/slabinfo as the
cache is used for generic allocations (and not just the kmem_cache_node
struct) and it appears as the kmalloc-128 cache is missing.

An easy solution is to use the kmalloc-<size> name when pre-creating the
cache, which we can get from the kmalloc_info array.

Example /proc/slabinfo before the patch:

  ...
  kmalloc-256         1647   1984    256   16    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata    124    124    828
  kmalloc-192         1974   1974    192   21    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata     94     94    133
  kmalloc-96          1332   1344    128   32    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata     42     42    219
  kmalloc-64          2505   5952     64   64    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata     93     93    715
  kmalloc-32          4278   4464     32  124    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata     36     36    346
  kmalloc-node        1352   1376    128   32    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata     43     43     53
  kmem_cache           132    147    192   21    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata      7      7      0

After the patch:

  ...
  kmalloc-256         1672   2160    256   16    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata    135    135    807
  kmalloc-192         1992   2016    192   21    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata     96     96    203
  kmalloc-96          1159   1184    128   32    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata     37     37    116
  kmalloc-64          2561   4864     64   64    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata     76     76    785
  kmalloc-32          4253   4340     32  124    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata     35     35    270
  kmalloc-128         1256   1280    128   32    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata     40     40     39
  kmem_cache           125    147    192   21    1 : tunables  120   60    8 : slabdata      7      7      0

[vbabka@suse.cz: export the whole kmalloc_info structure instead of just a name accessor, per Christoph Lameter]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/54e80303-b814-4232-66d4-95b34d3eb9d0@suse.cz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170203181008.24898-1-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.