Merge branch 'akpm' (more incoming from Andrew)

Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:

 - A little DM fix

 - the MM queue

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <[email protected]>: (154 commits)
  ksm: allocate roots when needed
  mm: cleanup "swapcache" in do_swap_page
  mm,ksm: swapoff might need to copy
  mm,ksm: FOLL_MIGRATION do migration_entry_wait
  ksm: shrink 32-bit rmap_item back to 32 bytes
  ksm: treat unstable nid like in stable tree
  ksm: add some comments
  tmpfs: fix mempolicy object leaks
  tmpfs: fix use-after-free of mempolicy object
  mm/fadvise.c: drain all pagevecs if POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED fails to discard all pages
  mm: export mmu notifier invalidates
  mm: accelerate mm_populate() treatment of THP pages
  mm: use long type for page counts in mm_populate() and get_user_pages()
  mm: accurately document nr_free_*_pages functions with code comments
  HWPOISON: change order of error_states[]'s elements
  HWPOISON: fix misjudgement of page_action() for errors on mlocked pages
  memcg: stop warning on memcg_propagate_kmem
  net: change type of virtio_chan->p9_max_pages
  vmscan: change type of vm_total_pages to unsigned long
  fs/nfsd: change type of max_delegations, nfsd_drc_max_mem and nfsd_drc_mem_used
  ...
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What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm
Date: September 2009
KernelVersion: 2.6.32
Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <[email protected]>
Description: Interface for Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM)
What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/full_scans
What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_shared
What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_sharing
What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_to_scan
What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_unshared
What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_volatile
What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run
What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/sleep_millisecs
Date: September 2009
Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <[email protected]>
Description: Kernel Samepage Merging daemon sysfs interface
full_scans: how many times all mergeable areas have been
scanned.
pages_shared: how many shared pages are being used.
pages_sharing: how many more sites are sharing them i.e. how
much saved.
pages_to_scan: how many present pages to scan before ksmd goes
to sleep.
pages_unshared: how many pages unique but repeatedly checked
for merging.
pages_volatile: how many pages changing too fast to be placed
in a tree.
run: write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled.
write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running.
write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages.
sleep_millisecs: how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between
scans.
See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information.
What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes
Date: January 2013
KernelVersion: 3.9
Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <[email protected]>
Description: Control merging pages across different NUMA nodes.
When it is set to 0 only pages from the same node are merged,
otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default).

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that the amount of memory usable for all allocations
is not too small.
movablemem_map=acpi
[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter is similar to
memmap except it specifies the memory map of
ZONE_MOVABLE.
This option inform the kernel to use Hot Pluggable bit
in flags from SRAT from ACPI BIOS to determine which
memory devices could be hotplugged. The corresponding
memory ranges will be set as ZONE_MOVABLE.
NOTE: Whatever node the kernel resides in will always
be un-hotpluggable.
movablemem_map=nn[KMG]@ss[KMG]
[KNL,X86,IA-64,PPC] This parameter is similar to
memmap except it specifies the memory map of
ZONE_MOVABLE.
If user specifies memory ranges, the info in SRAT will
be ingored. And it works like the following:
- If more ranges are all within one node, then from
lowest ss to the end of the node will be ZONE_MOVABLE.
- If a range is within a node, then from ss to the end
of the node will be ZONE_MOVABLE.
- If a range covers two or more nodes, then from ss to
the end of the 1st node will be ZONE_MOVABLE, and all
the rest nodes will only have ZONE_MOVABLE.
If memmap is specified at the same time, the
movablemem_map will be limited within the memmap
areas. If kernelcore or movablecore is also specified,
movablemem_map will have higher priority to be
satisfied. So the administrator should be careful that
the amount of movablemem_map areas are not too large.
Otherwise kernel won't have enough memory to start.
NOTE: We don't stop users specifying the node the
kernel resides in as hotpluggable so that this
option can be used as a workaround of firmware
bugs.
MTD_Partition= [MTD]
Format: <name>,<region-number>,<size>,<offset>

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e.g. "echo 20 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/sleep_millisecs"
Default: 20 (chosen for demonstration purposes)
merge_across_nodes - specifies if pages from different numa nodes can be merged.
When set to 0, ksm merges only pages which physically
reside in the memory area of same NUMA node. That brings
lower latency to access of shared pages. Systems with more
nodes, at significant NUMA distances, are likely to benefit
from the lower latency of setting 0. Smaller systems, which
need to minimize memory usage, are likely to benefit from
the greater sharing of setting 1 (default). You may wish to
compare how your system performs under each setting, before
deciding on which to use. merge_across_nodes setting can be
changed only when there are no ksm shared pages in system:
set run 2 to unmerge pages first, then to 1 after changing
merge_across_nodes, to remerge according to the new setting.
Default: 1 (merging across nodes as in earlier releases)
run - set 0 to stop ksmd from running but keep merged pages,
set 1 to run ksmd e.g. "echo 1 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run",
set 2 to stop ksmd and unmerge all pages currently merged,