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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-02-24 16:20:38 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-02-24 16:20:38 -0800
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: "A few small subsystems and some of MM. 172 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: hexagon, scripts, ntfs, ocfs2, vfs, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, debug, pagecache, swap, memcg, pagemap, mprotect, mremap, page-reporting, vmalloc, kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, vmscan, z3fold, compaction, mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, and migration)" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (172 commits) mm/migrate: remove unneeded semicolons hugetlbfs: remove unneeded return value of hugetlb_vmtruncate() hugetlbfs: fix some comment typos hugetlbfs: correct some obsolete comments about inode i_mutex hugetlbfs: make hugepage size conversion more readable hugetlbfs: remove meaningless variable avoid_reserve hugetlbfs: correct obsolete function name in hugetlbfs_read_iter() hugetlbfs: use helper macro default_hstate in init_hugetlbfs_fs hugetlbfs: remove useless BUG_ON(!inode) in hugetlbfs_setattr() hugetlbfs: remove special hugetlbfs_set_page_dirty() mm/hugetlb: change hugetlb_reserve_pages() to type bool mm, oom: fix a comment in dump_task() mm/mempolicy: use helper range_in_vma() in queue_pages_test_walk() numa balancing: migrate on fault among multiple bound nodes mm, compaction: make fast_isolate_freepages() stay within zone mm/compaction: fix misbehaviors of fast_find_migrateblock() mm/compaction: correct deferral logic for proactive compaction mm/compaction: remove duplicated VM_BUG_ON_PAGE !PageLocked mm/compaction: remove rcu_read_lock during page compaction z3fold: simplify the zhdr initialization code in init_z3fold_page() ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst10
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
index c513eafaddea..9acc57f68f31 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
@@ -1299,6 +1299,10 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
Amount of cached filesystem data that was modified and
is currently being written back to disk
+ swapcached
+ Amount of swap cached in memory. The swapcache is accounted
+ against both memory and swap usage.
+
anon_thp
Amount of memory used in anonymous mappings backed by
transparent hugepages
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 186ad235bf32..bab6a8b01202 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4904,14 +4904,6 @@
last alloc / free. For more information see
Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
- slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
- Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
- memory cgroup sub-caches. 1 to enable, 0 to disable.
- The default is determined by CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON.
- Enabling this can lead to a very high number of debug
- directories and files being created under
- /sys/kernel/slub.
-
slub_max_order= [MM, SLUB]
Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
index e35a3f2fb006..586cd4b86428 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
@@ -983,11 +983,11 @@ that benefit from having their data cached, zone_reclaim_mode should be
left disabled as the caching effect is likely to be more important than
data locality.
-zone_reclaim may be enabled if it's known that the workload is partitioned
-such that each partition fits within a NUMA node and that accessing remote
-memory would cause a measurable performance reduction. The page allocator
-will then reclaim easily reusable pages (those page cache pages that are
-currently not used) before allocating off node pages.
+Consider enabling one or more zone_reclaim mode bits if it's known that the
+workload is partitioned such that each partition fits within a NUMA node
+and that accessing remote memory would cause a measurable performance
+reduction. The page allocator will take additional actions before
+allocating off node pages.
Allowing zone reclaim to write out pages stops processes that are
writing large amounts of data from dirtying pages on other nodes. Zone