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Michal Hocko 0c397daea1 mm, hugetlb: further simplify hugetlb allocation API
Hugetlb allocator has several layer of allocation functions depending
and the purpose of the allocation.  There are two allocators depending
on whether the page can be allocated from the page allocator or we need
a contiguous allocator.  This is currently opencoded in
alloc_fresh_huge_page which is the only path that might allocate giga
pages which require the later allocator.  Create alloc_fresh_huge_page
which hides this implementation detail and use it in all callers which
hardcoded the buddy allocator path (__hugetlb_alloc_buddy_huge_page).
This shouldn't introduce any funtional change because both migration and
surplus allocators exlude giga pages explicitly.

While we are at it let's do some renaming.  The current scheme is not
consistent and overly painfull to read and understand.  Get rid of
prefix underscores from most functions.  There is no real reason to make
names longer.

* alloc_fresh_huge_page is the new layer to abstract underlying
  allocator
* __hugetlb_alloc_buddy_huge_page becomes shorter and neater
  alloc_buddy_huge_page.
* Former alloc_fresh_huge_page becomes alloc_pool_huge_page because we put
  the new page directly to the pool
* alloc_surplus_huge_page can drop the opencoded prep_new_huge_page code
  as it uses alloc_fresh_huge_page now
* others lose their excessive prefix underscores to make names shorter

[dan.carpenter@oracle.com: fix double unlock bug in alloc_surplus_huge_page()]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180109200559.g3iz5kvbdrz7yydp@mwanda
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180103093213.26329-6-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Andrea Reale <ar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Zi Yan <zi.yan@cs.rutgers.edu>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-01-31 17:18:40 -08:00
Documentation mm, hugetlb: remove hugepages_treat_as_movable sysctl 2018-01-31 17:18:37 -08:00
arch mm/thp: remove pmd_huge_split_prepare() 2018-01-31 17:18:38 -08:00
block Merge branch 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-30 17:58:07 -08:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-30 17:58:07 -08:00
drivers mm, mmu_notifier: annotate mmu notifiers with blockable invalidate callbacks 2018-01-31 17:18:38 -08:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs userfaultfd: convert to use anon_inode_getfd() 2018-01-31 17:18:39 -08:00
include mm, hugetlb: do not rely on overcommit limit during migration 2018-01-31 17:18:40 -08:00
init init_task out-of-lining 2018-01-29 09:08:34 -08:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.mqueue' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-30 18:32:21 -08:00
kernel mm, hugetlb: remove hugepages_treat_as_movable sysctl 2018-01-31 17:18:37 -08:00
lib First merge window pull request for 4.16 2018-01-31 12:05:10 -08:00
mm mm, hugetlb: further simplify hugetlb allocation API 2018-01-31 17:18:40 -08:00
net First merge window pull request for 4.16 2018-01-31 12:05:10 -08:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2017-12-03 13:08:30 -05:00
scripts scripts/tags.sh: change find_other_sources() for include directories 2018-01-31 17:18:34 -08:00
security Merge branch 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-30 17:58:07 -08:00
sound Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-31 09:25:20 -08:00
tools memfd-test: run fuse test on hugetlb backend memory 2018-01-31 17:18:39 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt mm, mmu_notifier: annotate mmu notifiers with blockable invalidate callbacks 2018-01-31 17:18:38 -08:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild misc updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:51:33 -08:00
.mailmap mailmap: update Mark Yao's email address 2018-01-04 16:45:09 -08:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS First merge window pull request for 4.16 2018-01-31 12:05:10 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.15 2018-01-28 13:20:33 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

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.