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Matthew Wilcox 620b4e9031 s390: use _refcount for pgtables
Patch series "Rearrange struct page", v6.

As presented at LSFMM, this patch-set rearranges struct page to give
more contiguous usable space to users who have allocated a struct page
for their own purposes.  For a graphical view of before-and-after, see
the first two tabs of

  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tvCszs_7FXrjei9_mtFiKV6nW1FLnYyvPvW-qNZhdog/edit?usp=sharing

Highlights:
 - deferred_list now really exists in struct page instead of just a comment.
 - hmm_data also exists in struct page instead of being a nasty hack.
 - x86's PGD pages have a real pointer to the mm_struct.
 - VMalloc pages now have all sorts of extra information stored in them
   to help with debugging and tuning.
 - rcu_head is no longer tied to slab in case anyone else wants to
   free pages by RCU.
 - slub's counters no longer share space with _refcount.
 - slub's freelist+counters are now naturally dword aligned.
 - slub loses a parameter to a lot of functions and a sysfs file.

This patch (of 17):

s390 borrows the storage used for _mapcount in struct page in order to
account whether the bottom or top half is being used for 2kB page tables.
I want to use that for something else, so use the top byte of _refcount
instead of the bottom byte of _mapcount.  _refcount may temporarily be
incremented by other CPUs that see a stale pointer to this page in the
page cache, but each CPU can only increment it by one, and there are no
systems with 2^24 CPUs today, so they will not change the upper byte of
_refcount.  We do have to be a little careful not to lose any of their
writes (as they will subsequently decrement the counter).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180518194519.3820-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-06-07 17:34:37 -07:00
arch s390: use _refcount for pgtables 2018-06-07 17:34:37 -07:00
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certs
crypto
Documentation memcg: introduce memory.min 2018-06-07 17:34:36 -07:00
drivers zram: introduce zram memory tracking 2018-06-07 17:34:34 -07:00
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fs mm: /proc/pid/pagemap: hide swap entries from unprivileged users 2018-06-07 17:34:36 -07:00
include mm: save two stranded bits in gfp_mask 2018-06-07 17:34:36 -07:00
init Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2018-06-06 18:39:49 -07:00
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kernel mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct 2018-06-07 17:34:34 -07:00
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net net/9p/trans_xen.c: don't inclide rwlock.h directly 2018-06-07 17:34:34 -07:00
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scripts scripts: use SPDX tag in get_maintainer and checkpatch 2018-06-07 17:34:33 -07:00
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sound media updates for v4.18-rc1 2018-06-07 12:34:37 -07:00
tools powerpc updates for 4.18 2018-06-07 10:23:33 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS media updates for v4.18-rc1 2018-06-07 12:34:37 -07:00
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.