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Song Liu 99cb0dbd47 mm,thp: add read-only THP support for (non-shmem) FS
This patch is (hopefully) the first step to enable THP for non-shmem
filesystems.

This patch enables an application to put part of its text sections to THP
via madvise, for example:

    madvise((void *)0x600000, 0x200000, MADV_HUGEPAGE);

We tried to reuse the logic for THP on tmpfs.

Currently, write is not supported for non-shmem THP.  khugepaged will only
process vma with VM_DENYWRITE.  sys_mmap() ignores VM_DENYWRITE requests
(see ksys_mmap_pgoff).  The only way to create vma with VM_DENYWRITE is
execve().  This requirement limits non-shmem THP to text sections.

The next patch will handle writes, which would only happen when the all
the vmas with VM_DENYWRITE are unmapped.

An EXPERIMENTAL config, READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS, is added to gate this
feature.

[songliubraving@fb.com: fix build without CONFIG_SHMEM]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/F53407FB-96CC-42E8-9862-105C92CC2B98@fb.com
[songliubraving@fb.com: fix double unlock in collapse_file()]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/B960CBFA-8EFC-4DA4-ABC5-1977FFF2CA57@fb.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190801184244.3169074-7-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Documentation memcg, kmem: deprecate kmem.limit_in_bytes 2019-09-24 15:54:10 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch thp: update split_huge_page_pmd() comment 2019-09-24 15:54:10 -07:00
block dma-mapping updates for 5.4: 2019-09-19 13:27:23 -07:00
certs Revert "Merge tag 'keys-acl-20190703' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs" 2019-07-10 18:43:43 -07:00
crypto - crypto and DM crypt advances that allow the crypto API to reclaim 2019-09-21 10:40:37 -07:00
drivers mm,thp: stats for file backed THP 2019-09-24 15:54:11 -07:00
fs mm,thp: stats for file backed THP 2019-09-24 15:54:11 -07:00
include mm,thp: stats for file backed THP 2019-09-24 15:54:11 -07:00
init mm: use CPU_BITS_NONE to initialize init_mm.cpu_bitmask 2019-09-24 15:54:10 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.mount-base' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-09-18 13:15:58 -07:00
kernel mm/memory_hotplug.c: use PFN_UP / PFN_DOWN in walk_system_ram_range() 2019-09-24 15:54:09 -07:00
lib mm: remove quicklist page table caches 2019-09-24 15:54:09 -07:00
mm mm,thp: add read-only THP support for (non-shmem) FS 2019-09-24 15:54:11 -07:00
net net/xdp: convert put_page() to put_user_page*() 2019-09-24 15:54:08 -07:00
samples rpmsg updates for v5.4 2019-09-22 10:58:15 -07:00
scripts Modules updates for v5.4 2019-09-22 10:34:46 -07:00
security keys: Fix missing null pointer check in request_key_auth_describe() 2019-09-05 14:19:25 -07:00
sound Main MIPS changes for v5.4: 2019-09-22 09:30:30 -07:00
tools f2fs-for-5.4-rc1 2019-09-21 14:26:33 -07:00
usr kbuild: clean compressed initramfs image 2019-09-24 15:54:07 -07:00
virt * s390: ioctl hardening, selftests 2019-09-18 09:49:13 -07:00
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Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
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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.