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diff --git a/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt b/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt index 02b89dcf38ac..b565e8279d13 100644 --- a/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt +++ b/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt @@ -248,3 +248,18 @@ PROVIDING SHAREABLE BLOCK DEVICE SUPPORT Provision of shared mappings on block device files is exactly the same as for character devices. If there isn't a real device underneath, then the driver should allocate sufficient contiguous memory to honour any supported mapping. + + +================================= +ADJUSTING PAGE TRIMMING BEHAVIOUR +================================= + +NOMMU mmap automatically rounds up to the nearest power-of-2 number of pages +when performing an allocation. This can have adverse effects on memory +fragmentation, and as such, is left configurable. The default behaviour is to +aggressively trim allocations and discard any excess pages back in to the page +allocator. In order to retain finer-grained control over fragmentation, this +behaviour can either be disabled completely, or bumped up to a higher page +watermark where trimming begins. + +Page trimming behaviour is configurable via the sysctl `vm.nr_trim_pages'. |