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documented (hopefully adequately) in the respective changelogs.  Notable
 series include:
 
 - Lucas Stach has provided some page-mapping
   cleanup/consolidation/maintainability work in the series "mm/treewide:
   Remove pXd_huge() API".
 
 - In the series "Allow migrate on protnone reference with
   MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy", Donet Tom has optimized mempolicy's
   MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mode, yielding almost doubled performance in one
   test.
 
 - In their series "Memory allocation profiling" Kent Overstreet and
   Suren Baghdasaryan have contributed a means of determining (via
   /proc/allocinfo) whereabouts in the kernel memory is being allocated:
   number of calls and amount of memory.
 
 - Matthew Wilcox has provided the series "Various significant MM
   patches" which does a number of rather unrelated things, but in largely
   similar code sites.
 
 - In his series "mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene" Johannes
   Weiner has fixed the page allocator's handling of migratetype requests,
   with resulting improvements in compaction efficiency.
 
 - In the series "make the hugetlb migration strategy consistent" Baolin
   Wang has fixed a hugetlb migration issue, which should improve hugetlb
   allocation reliability.
 
 - Liu Shixin has hit an I/O meltdown caused by readahead in a
   memory-tight memcg.  Addressed in the series "Fix I/O high when memory
   almost met memcg limit".
 
 - In the series "mm/filemap: optimize folio adding and splitting" Kairui
   Song has optimized pagecache insertion, yielding ~10% performance
   improvement in one test.
 
 - Baoquan He has cleaned up and consolidated the early zone
   initialization code in the series "mm/mm_init.c: refactor
   free_area_init_core()".
 
 - Baoquan has also redone some MM initializatio code in the series
   "mm/init: minor clean up and improvement".
 
 - MM helper cleanups from Christoph Hellwig in his series "remove
   follow_pfn".
 
 - More cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Various page->flags
   cleanups".
 
 - Vlastimil Babka has contributed maintainability improvements in the
   series "memcg_kmem hooks refactoring".
 
 - More folio conversions and cleanups in Matthew Wilcox's series
 
 	"Convert huge_zero_page to huge_zero_folio"
 	"khugepaged folio conversions"
 	"Remove page_idle and page_young wrappers"
 	"Use folio APIs in procfs"
 	"Clean up __folio_put()"
 	"Some cleanups for memory-failure"
 	"Remove page_mapping()"
 	"More folio compat code removal"
 
 - David Hildenbrand chipped in with "fs/proc/task_mmu: convert hugetlb
   functions to work on folis".
 
 - Code consolidation and cleanup work related to GUP's handling of
   hugetlbs in Peter Xu's series "mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, part 2".
 
 - Rick Edgecombe has developed some fixes to stack guard gaps in the
   series "Cover a guard gap corner case".
 
 - Jinjiang Tu has fixed KSM's behaviour after a fork+exec in the series
   "mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl".
 
 - Baolin Wang has implemented NUMA balancing for multi-size THPs.  This
   is a simple first-cut implementation for now.  The series is "support
   multi-size THP numa balancing".
 
 - Cleanups to vma handling helper functions from Matthew Wilcox in the
   series "Unify vma_address and vma_pgoff_address".
 
 - Some selftests maintenance work from Dev Jain in the series
   "selftests/mm: mremap_test: Optimizations and style fixes".
 
 - Improvements to the swapping of multi-size THPs from Ryan Roberts in
   the series "Swap-out mTHP without splitting".
 
 - Kefeng Wang has significantly optimized the handling of arm64's
   permission page faults in the series
 
 	"arch/mm/fault: accelerate pagefault when badaccess"
 	"mm: remove arch's private VM_FAULT_BADMAP/BADACCESS"
 
 - GUP cleanups from David Hildenbrand in "mm/gup: consistently call it
   GUP-fast".
 
 - hugetlb fault code cleanups from Vishal Moola in "Hugetlb fault path to
   use struct vm_fault".
 
 - selftests build fixes from John Hubbard in the series "Fix
   selftests/mm build without requiring "make headers"".
 
 - Memory tiering fixes/improvements from Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang in the
   series "Improved Memory Tier Creation for CPUless NUMA Nodes".  Fixes
   the initialization code so that migration between different memory types
   works as intended.
 
 - David Hildenbrand has improved follow_pte() and fixed an errant driver
   in the series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn follow_pte()
   fixes".
 
 - David also did some cleanup work on large folio mapcounts in his
   series "mm: mapcount for large folios + page_mapcount() cleanups".
 
 - Folio conversions in KSM in Alex Shi's series "transfer page to folio
   in KSM".
 
 - Barry Song has added some sysfs stats for monitoring multi-size THP's
   in the series "mm: add per-order mTHP alloc and swpout counters".
 
 - Some zswap cleanups from Yosry Ahmed in the series "zswap same-filled
   and limit checking cleanups".
 
 - Matthew Wilcox has been looking at buffer_head code and found the
   documentation to be lacking.  The series is "Improve buffer head
   documentation".
 
 - Multi-size THPs get more work, this time from Lance Yang.  His series
   "mm/madvise: enhance lazyfreeing with mTHP in madvise_free" optimizes
   the freeing of these things.
 
 - Kemeng Shi has added more userspace-visible writeback instrumentation
   in the series "Improve visibility of writeback".
 
 - Kemeng Shi then sent some maintenance work on top in the series "Fix
   and cleanups to page-writeback".
 
 - Matthew Wilcox reduces mmap_lock traffic in the anon vma code in the
   series "Improve anon_vma scalability for anon VMAs".  Intel's test bot
   reported an improbable 3x improvement in one test.
 
 - SeongJae Park adds some DAMON feature work in the series
 
 	"mm/damon: add a DAMOS filter type for page granularity access recheck"
 	"selftests/damon: add DAMOS quota goal test"
 
 - Also some maintenance work in the series
 
 	"mm/damon/paddr: simplify page level access re-check for pageout"
 	"mm/damon: misc fixes and improvements"
 
 - David Hildenbrand has disabled some known-to-fail selftests ni the
   series "selftests: mm: cow: flag vmsplice() hugetlb tests as XFAIL".
 
 - memcg metadata storage optimizations from Shakeel Butt in "memcg:
   reduce memory consumption by memcg stats".
 
 - DAX fixes and maintenance work from Vishal Verma in the series
   "dax/bus.c: Fixups for dax-bus locking".
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull mm updates from Andrew Morton:
 "The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM,
  documented (hopefully adequately) in the respective changelogs.
  Notable series include:

   - Lucas Stach has provided some page-mapping cleanup/consolidation/
     maintainability work in the series "mm/treewide: Remove pXd_huge()
     API".

   - In the series "Allow migrate on protnone reference with
     MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY policy", Donet Tom has optimized mempolicy's
     MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mode, yielding almost doubled performance in
     one test.

   - In their series "Memory allocation profiling" Kent Overstreet and
     Suren Baghdasaryan have contributed a means of determining (via
     /proc/allocinfo) whereabouts in the kernel memory is being
     allocated: number of calls and amount of memory.

   - Matthew Wilcox has provided the series "Various significant MM
     patches" which does a number of rather unrelated things, but in
     largely similar code sites.

   - In his series "mm: page_alloc: freelist migratetype hygiene"
     Johannes Weiner has fixed the page allocator's handling of
     migratetype requests, with resulting improvements in compaction
     efficiency.

   - In the series "make the hugetlb migration strategy consistent"
     Baolin Wang has fixed a hugetlb migration issue, which should
     improve hugetlb allocation reliability.

   - Liu Shixin has hit an I/O meltdown caused by readahead in a
     memory-tight memcg. Addressed in the series "Fix I/O high when
     memory almost met memcg limit".

   - In the series "mm/filemap: optimize folio adding and splitting"
     Kairui Song has optimized pagecache insertion, yielding ~10%
     performance improvement in one test.

   - Baoquan He has cleaned up and consolidated the early zone
     initialization code in the series "mm/mm_init.c: refactor
     free_area_init_core()".

   - Baoquan has also redone some MM initializatio code in the series
     "mm/init: minor clean up and improvement".

   - MM helper cleanups from Christoph Hellwig in his series "remove
     follow_pfn".

   - More cleanups from Matthew Wilcox in the series "Various
     page->flags cleanups".

   - Vlastimil Babka has contributed maintainability improvements in the
     series "memcg_kmem hooks refactoring".

   - More folio conversions and cleanups in Matthew Wilcox's series:
	"Convert huge_zero_page to huge_zero_folio"
	"khugepaged folio conversions"
	"Remove page_idle and page_young wrappers"
	"Use folio APIs in procfs"
	"Clean up __folio_put()"
	"Some cleanups for memory-failure"
	"Remove page_mapping()"
	"More folio compat code removal"

   - David Hildenbrand chipped in with "fs/proc/task_mmu: convert
     hugetlb functions to work on folis".

   - Code consolidation and cleanup work related to GUP's handling of
     hugetlbs in Peter Xu's series "mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, part 2".

   - Rick Edgecombe has developed some fixes to stack guard gaps in the
     series "Cover a guard gap corner case".

   - Jinjiang Tu has fixed KSM's behaviour after a fork+exec in the
     series "mm/ksm: fix ksm exec support for prctl".

   - Baolin Wang has implemented NUMA balancing for multi-size THPs.
     This is a simple first-cut implementation for now. The series is
     "support multi-size THP numa balancing".

   - Cleanups to vma handling helper functions from Matthew Wilcox in
     the series "Unify vma_address and vma_pgoff_address".

   - Some selftests maintenance work from Dev Jain in the series
     "selftests/mm: mremap_test: Optimizations and style fixes".

   - Improvements to the swapping of multi-size THPs from Ryan Roberts
     in the series "Swap-out mTHP without splitting".

   - Kefeng Wang has significantly optimized the handling of arm64's
     permission page faults in the series
	"arch/mm/fault: accelerate pagefault when badaccess"
	"mm: remove arch's private VM_FAULT_BADMAP/BADACCESS"

   - GUP cleanups from David Hildenbrand in "mm/gup: consistently call
     it GUP-fast".

   - hugetlb fault code cleanups from Vishal Moola in "Hugetlb fault
     path to use struct vm_fault".

   - selftests build fixes from John Hubbard in the series "Fix
     selftests/mm build without requiring "make headers"".

   - Memory tiering fixes/improvements from Ho-Ren (Jack) Chuang in the
     series "Improved Memory Tier Creation for CPUless NUMA Nodes".
     Fixes the initialization code so that migration between different
     memory types works as intended.

   - David Hildenbrand has improved follow_pte() and fixed an errant
     driver in the series "mm: follow_pte() improvements and acrn
     follow_pte() fixes".

   - David also did some cleanup work on large folio mapcounts in his
     series "mm: mapcount for large folios + page_mapcount() cleanups".

   - Folio conversions in KSM in Alex Shi's series "transfer page to
     folio in KSM".

   - Barry Song has added some sysfs stats for monitoring multi-size
     THP's in the series "mm: add per-order mTHP alloc and swpout
     counters".

   - Some zswap cleanups from Yosry Ahmed in the series "zswap
     same-filled and limit checking cleanups".

   - Matthew Wilcox has been looking at buffer_head code and found the
     documentation to be lacking. The series is "Improve buffer head
     documentation".

   - Multi-size THPs get more work, this time from Lance Yang. His
     series "mm/madvise: enhance lazyfreeing with mTHP in madvise_free"
     optimizes the freeing of these things.

   - Kemeng Shi has added more userspace-visible writeback
     instrumentation in the series "Improve visibility of writeback".

   - Kemeng Shi then sent some maintenance work on top in the series
     "Fix and cleanups to page-writeback".

   - Matthew Wilcox reduces mmap_lock traffic in the anon vma code in
     the series "Improve anon_vma scalability for anon VMAs". Intel's
     test bot reported an improbable 3x improvement in one test.

   - SeongJae Park adds some DAMON feature work in the series
	"mm/damon: add a DAMOS filter type for page granularity access recheck"
	"selftests/damon: add DAMOS quota goal test"

   - Also some maintenance work in the series
	"mm/damon/paddr: simplify page level access re-check for pageout"
	"mm/damon: misc fixes and improvements"

   - David Hildenbrand has disabled some known-to-fail selftests ni the
     series "selftests: mm: cow: flag vmsplice() hugetlb tests as
     XFAIL".

   - memcg metadata storage optimizations from Shakeel Butt in "memcg:
     reduce memory consumption by memcg stats".

   - DAX fixes and maintenance work from Vishal Verma in the series
     "dax/bus.c: Fixups for dax-bus locking""

* tag 'mm-stable-2024-05-17-19-19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (426 commits)
  memcg, oom: cleanup unused memcg_oom_gfp_mask and memcg_oom_order
  selftests/mm: hugetlb_madv_vs_map: avoid test skipping by querying hugepage size at runtime
  mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_wp
  mm/hugetlb: add missing VM_FAULT_SET_HINDEX in hugetlb_fault
  selftests: cgroup: add tests to verify the zswap writeback path
  mm: memcg: make alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info() return bool
  mm/damon/core: fix return value from damos_wmark_metric_value
  mm: do not update memcg stats for NR_{FILE/SHMEM}_PMDMAPPED
  selftests: cgroup: remove redundant enabling of memory controller
  Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: allow posting patches based on damon/next tree
  Docs/mm/damon/maintainer-profile: change the maintainer's timezone from PST to PT
  Docs/mm/damon/design: use a list for supported filters
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong schemes effective quota update command
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: fix wrong example of DAMOS filter matching sysfs file
  selftests/damon: classify tests for functionalities and regressions
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: use 'is' instead of '==' for 'None'
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: find sysfs mount point from /proc/mounts
  selftests/damon/_damon_sysfs: check errors from nr_schemes file reads
  mm/damon/core: initialize ->esz_bp from damos_quota_init_priv()
  selftests/damon: add a test for DAMOS quota goal
  ...
2024-05-19 09:21:03 -07:00
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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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 reStructuredText 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.