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Anshuman Khandual 56993b4e14 mm/sparsemem: enable vmem_altmap support in vmemmap_alloc_block_buf()
There are many instances where vmemap allocation is often switched between
regular memory and device memory just based on whether altmap is available
or not.  vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() is used in various platforms to
allocate vmemmap mappings.  Lets also enable it to handle altmap based
device memory allocation along with existing regular memory allocations.
This will help in avoiding the altmap based allocation switch in many
places.  To summarize there are two different methods to call
vmemmap_alloc_block_buf().

vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(size, node, NULL)   /* Allocate from system RAM */
vmemmap_alloc_block_buf(size, node, altmap) /* Allocate from altmap */

This converts altmap_alloc_block_buf() into a static function, drops it's
entry from the header and updates Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst.

Suggested-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Jia He <justin.he@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Hsin-Yi Wang <hsinyi@chromium.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1594004178-8861-3-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-08-07 11:33:27 -07:00
Documentation mm/sparsemem: enable vmem_altmap support in vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() 2020-08-07 11:33:27 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch mm/sparsemem: enable vmem_altmap support in vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() 2020-08-07 11:33:27 -07:00
block for-5.9/block-merge-20200804 2020-08-05 11:12:34 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() 2020-08-07 11:33:22 -07:00
drivers mm: remove unneeded includes of <asm/pgalloc.h> 2020-08-07 11:33:26 -07:00
fs proc/meminfo: avoid open coded reading of vm_committed_as 2020-08-07 11:33:26 -07:00
include mm/sparsemem: enable vmem_altmap support in vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() 2020-08-07 11:33:27 -07:00
init mm/slab: expand CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED to include SLAB 2020-08-07 11:33:22 -07:00
ipc mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
kernel mm: adjust vm_committed_as_batch according to vm overcommit policy 2020-08-07 11:33:26 -07:00
lib percpu_counter: add percpu_counter_sync() 2020-08-07 11:33:26 -07:00
mm mm/sparsemem: enable vmem_altmap support in vmemmap_alloc_block_buf() 2020-08-07 11:33:27 -07:00
net mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() 2020-08-07 11:33:22 -07:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 2020-08-05 20:13:21 -07:00
scripts mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() 2020-08-07 11:33:22 -07:00
security mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() 2020-08-07 11:33:22 -07:00
sound sound updates for 5.9 2020-08-06 14:27:31 -07:00
tools tools/cgroup: add memcg_slabinfo.py tool 2020-08-07 11:33:25 -07:00
usr usr: Add support for zstd compressed initramfs 2020-07-31 11:49:08 +02:00
virt s390: implement diag318 2020-08-06 12:59:31 -07:00
.clang-format block: add bio_for_each_bvec_all() 2020-05-25 11:25:24 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: Add ZSTD-compressed files 2020-07-31 11:50:49 +02:00
.mailmap It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a 2020-08-04 22:47:54 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones 2020-07-23 14:53:58 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS TTY/Serial patches for 5.9-rc1 2020-08-06 14:56:11 -07:00
Makefile Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 2020-08-05 20:13:21 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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.