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DISCONTIGMEM was intended to provide more efficient support for systems with holes in their physical address space that FLATMEM did. Yet, it's overhead in terms of the memory consumption seems to overweight the savings on the unused memory map. For a ARAnyM system with 16 MBytes of FastRAM configured, the memory usage reported after page allocator initialization is Memory: 23828K/30720K available (3206K kernel code, 535K rwdata, 936K rodata, 768K init, 193K bss, 6892K reserved, 0K cma-reserved) and with DISCONTIGMEM disabled and with relatively large hole in the memory map it is: Memory: 23864K/30720K available (3197K kernel code, 516K rwdata, 936K rodata, 764K init, 179K bss, 6856K reserved, 0K cma-reserved) Moreover, since m68k already has custom pfn_valid() it is possible to define HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID to enable freeing of unused memory map. The minimal size of a hole that can be freed should not be less than MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES so to achieve more substantial memory savings let m68k also define custom FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER. With FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER set to 9 memory usage becomes: Memory: 23880K/30720K available (3197K kernel code, 516K rwdata, 936K rodata, 764K init, 179K bss, 6840K reserved, 0K cma-reserved) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201101170454.9567-14-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org> Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> Cc: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> 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
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
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.