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This patch adds a new page allocator interface via alloc_pages_bulk, and __alloc_pages_bulk_nodemask. A caller requests a number of pages to be allocated and added to a list. The API is not guaranteed to return the requested number of pages and may fail if the preferred allocation zone has limited free memory, the cpuset changes during the allocation or page debugging decides to fail an allocation. It's up to the caller to request more pages in batch if necessary. Note that this implementation is not very efficient and could be improved but it would require refactoring. The intent is to make it available early to determine what semantics are required by different callers. Once the full semantics are nailed down, it can be refactored. [mgorman@techsingularity.net: fix alloc_pages_bulk() return type, per Matthew] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210325123713.GQ3697@techsingularity.net [mgorman@techsingularity.net: fix uninit var warning] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210330114847.GX3697@techsingularity.net [mgorman@techsingularity.net: fix comment, per Vlastimil] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210412110255.GV3697@techsingularity.net Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210325114228.27719-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me> Tested-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org> Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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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.