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# dbeb56fe 29-Jan-2023 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

Documentation: admin-guide: correct spelling

Correct spelling problems for Documentation/admin-guide/ as reported
by codespell.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Muke

Documentation: admin-guide: correct spelling

Correct spelling problems for Documentation/admin-guide/ as reported
by codespell.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Cc: dm-devel@redhat.com
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230129231053.20863-2-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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# 816284a3 08-Aug-2022 Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>

userfaultfd: update documentation to describe /dev/userfaultfd

Explain the different ways to create a new userfaultfd, and how access
control works for each way.

[axelrasmussen@google.com: improve

userfaultfd: update documentation to describe /dev/userfaultfd

Explain the different ways to create a new userfaultfd, and how access
control works for each way.

[axelrasmussen@google.com: improve wording in documentation, per Mike]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220819205201.658693-5-axelrasmussen@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220808175614.3885028-5-axelrasmussen@google.com
Signed-off-by: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Cc: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy <glebfm@altlinux.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# dff03381 28-Jun-2022 Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>

mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: introduce the name HVO

It it inconvenient to mention the feature of optimizing vmemmap pages
associated with HugeTLB pages when communicating with others since there
is no speci

mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: introduce the name HVO

It it inconvenient to mention the feature of optimizing vmemmap pages
associated with HugeTLB pages when communicating with others since there
is no specific or abbreviated name for it when it is first introduced.
Let us give it a name HVO (HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization) from now.

This commit also updates the document about "hugetlb_free_vmemmap" by the
way discussed in thread [1].

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/21aae898-d54d-cc4b-a11f-1bb7fddcfffa@redhat.com/ [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220628092235.91270-4-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# 66361095 17-Jun-2022 Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>

mm: memory_hotplug: make hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap compatible with memmap_on_memory

For now, the feature of hugetlb_free_vmemmap is not compatible with the
feature of memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory,

mm: memory_hotplug: make hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap compatible with memmap_on_memory

For now, the feature of hugetlb_free_vmemmap is not compatible with the
feature of memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory, and hugetlb_free_vmemmap takes
precedence over memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory. However, someone wants
to make memory_hotplug.memmap_on_memory takes precedence over
hugetlb_free_vmemmap since memmap_on_memory makes it more likely to
succeed memory hotplug in close-to-OOM situations. So the decision of
making hugetlb_free_vmemmap take precedence is not wise and elegant.

The proper approach is to have hugetlb_vmemmap.c do the check whether the
section which the HugeTLB pages belong to can be optimized. If the
section's vmemmap pages are allocated from the added memory block itself,
hugetlb_free_vmemmap should refuse to optimize the vmemmap, otherwise, do
the optimization. Then both kernel parameters are compatible. So this
patch introduces VmemmapSelfHosted to mask any non-optimizable vmemmap
pages. The hugetlb_vmemmap can use this flag to detect if a vmemmap page
can be optimized.

[songmuchun@bytedance.com: walk vmemmap page tables to avoid false-positive]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220620110616.12056-3-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220617135650.74901-3-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Co-developed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# ee65728e 27-Jun-2022 Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>

docs: rename Documentation/vm to Documentation/mm

so it will be consistent with code mm directory and with
Documentation/admin-guide/mm and won't be confused with virtual machines.

Signed-off-by: M

docs: rename Documentation/vm to Documentation/mm

so it will be consistent with code mm directory and with
Documentation/admin-guide/mm and won't be confused with virtual machines.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Acked-by: Wu XiangCheng <bobwxc@email.cn>

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Revision tags: v5.15.48, v5.15.47, v5.15.46, v5.15.45, v5.15.44, v5.15.43, v5.15.42, v5.18, v5.15.41, v5.15.40
# 78f39084 13-May-2022 Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>

mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: add hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap sysctl

We must add hugetlb_free_vmemmap=on (or "off") to the boot cmdline and
reboot the server to enable or disable the feature of optimizing vmemm

mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: add hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap sysctl

We must add hugetlb_free_vmemmap=on (or "off") to the boot cmdline and
reboot the server to enable or disable the feature of optimizing vmemmap
pages associated with HugeTLB pages. However, rebooting usually takes a
long time. So add a sysctl to enable or disable the feature at runtime
without rebooting. Why we need this? There are 3 use cases.

1) The feature of minimizing overhead of struct page associated with
each HugeTLB is disabled by default without passing
"hugetlb_free_vmemmap=on" to the boot cmdline. When we (ByteDance)
deliver the servers to the users who want to enable this feature, they
have to configure the grub (change boot cmdline) and reboot the
servers, whereas rebooting usually takes a long time (we have thousands
of servers). It's a very bad experience for the users. So we need a
approach to enable this feature after rebooting. This is a use case in
our practical environment.

2) Some use cases are that HugeTLB pages are allocated 'on the fly'
instead of being pulled from the HugeTLB pool, those workloads would be
affected with this feature enabled. Those workloads could be
identified by the characteristics of they never explicitly allocating
huge pages with 'nr_hugepages' but only set 'nr_overcommit_hugepages'
and then let the pages be allocated from the buddy allocator at fault
time. We can confirm it is a real use case from the commit
099730d67417. For those workloads, the page fault time could be ~2x
slower than before. We suspect those users want to disable this
feature if the system has enabled this before and they don't think the
memory savings benefit is enough to make up for the performance drop.

3) If the workload which wants vmemmap pages to be optimized and the
workload which wants to set 'nr_overcommit_hugepages' and does not want
the extera overhead at fault time when the overcommitted pages be
allocated from the buddy allocator are deployed in the same server.
The user could enable this feature and set 'nr_hugepages' and
'nr_overcommit_hugepages', then disable the feature. In this case, the
overcommited HugeTLB pages will not encounter the extra overhead at
fault time.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220512041142.39501-5-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# 8d98e42f 29-Apr-2022 Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com>

Documentation/sysctl: document page_lock_unfairness

commit 5ef64cc8987a ("mm: allow a controlled amount of unfairness in the
page lock") introduced a new systctl but no accompanying documentation.

Documentation/sysctl: document page_lock_unfairness

commit 5ef64cc8987a ("mm: allow a controlled amount of unfairness in the
page lock") introduced a new systctl but no accompanying documentation.

Add a simple entry to the documentation.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220325164437.120246-1-jsavitz@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: "zhangyi (F)" <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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# 39c65a94 14-Jan-2022 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitat

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for
watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every
time such application is started. This results in slow application
startup times and bad end-user experience.

By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more
flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their
device and workload requirements.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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# e2b6c5f7 14-Jan-2022 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applicati

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for
watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every
time such application is started. This results in slow application
startup times and bad end-user experience.

By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more
flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their
device and workload requirements.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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# e2b6c5f7 14-Jan-2022 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applicati

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for
watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every
time such application is started. This results in slow application
startup times and bad end-user experience.

By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more
flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their
device and workload requirements.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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# e2b6c5f7 14-Jan-2022 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applicati

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for
watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every
time such application is started. This results in slow application
startup times and bad end-user experience.

By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more
flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their
device and workload requirements.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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# e2b6c5f7 14-Jan-2022 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applicati

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for
watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every
time such application is started. This results in slow application
startup times and bad end-user experience.

By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more
flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their
device and workload requirements.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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# e2b6c5f7 14-Jan-2022 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applicati

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for
watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every
time such application is started. This results in slow application
startup times and bad end-user experience.

By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more
flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their
device and workload requirements.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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# e2b6c5f7 14-Jan-2022 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applicati

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for
watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every
time such application is started. This results in slow application
startup times and bad end-user experience.

By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more
flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their
device and workload requirements.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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# e2b6c5f7 14-Jan-2022 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applicati

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for
watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every
time such application is started. This results in slow application
startup times and bad end-user experience.

By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more
flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their
device and workload requirements.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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# e2b6c5f7 14-Jan-2022 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applicati

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for
watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every
time such application is started. This results in slow application
startup times and bad end-user experience.

By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more
flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their
device and workload requirements.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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# e2b6c5f7 14-Jan-2022 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applicati

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for
watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every
time such application is started. This results in slow application
startup times and bad end-user experience.

By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more
flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their
device and workload requirements.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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# e2b6c5f7 14-Jan-2022 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applicati

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for
watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every
time such application is started. This results in slow application
startup times and bad end-user experience.

By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more
flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their
device and workload requirements.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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# e2b6c5f7 14-Jan-2022 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applicati

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for
watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every
time such application is started. This results in slow application
startup times and bad end-user experience.

By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more
flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their
device and workload requirements.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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# e2b6c5f7 14-Jan-2022 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applicati

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for
watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every
time such application is started. This results in slow application
startup times and bad end-user experience.

By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more
flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their
device and workload requirements.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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# e2b6c5f7 14-Jan-2022 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applicati

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for
watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every
time such application is started. This results in slow application
startup times and bad end-user experience.

By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more
flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their
device and workload requirements.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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# e2b6c5f7 14-Jan-2022 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applicati

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for
watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every
time such application is started. This results in slow application
startup times and bad end-user experience.

By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more
flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their
device and workload requirements.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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# e2b6c5f7 14-Jan-2022 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applicati

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

[ Upstream commit 39c65a94cd9661532be150e88f8b02f4a6844a35 ]

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for
watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every
time such application is started. This results in slow application
startup times and bad end-user experience.

By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more
flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their
device and workload requirements.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Cc: Fengfei Xi <xi.fengfei@h3c.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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# 65d759c8 02-Sep-2021 Charan Teja Reddy <charante@codeaurora.org>

mm: compaction: support triggering of proactive compaction by user

The proactive compaction[1] gets triggered for every 500msec and run
compaction on the node for COMPACTION_HPAGE_ORDER (usually ord

mm: compaction: support triggering of proactive compaction by user

The proactive compaction[1] gets triggered for every 500msec and run
compaction on the node for COMPACTION_HPAGE_ORDER (usually order-9) pages
based on the value set to sysctl.compaction_proactiveness. Triggering the
compaction for every 500msec in search of COMPACTION_HPAGE_ORDER pages is
not needed for all applications, especially on the embedded system
usecases which may have few MB's of RAM. Enabling the proactive
compaction in its state will endup in running almost always on such
systems.

Other side, proactive compaction can still be very much useful for getting
a set of higher order pages in some controllable manner(controlled by
using the sysctl.compaction_proactiveness). So, on systems where enabling
the proactive compaction always may proove not required, can trigger the
same from user space on write to its sysctl interface. As an example, say
app launcher decide to launch the memory heavy application which can be
launched fast if it gets more higher order pages thus launcher can prepare
the system in advance by triggering the proactive compaction from
userspace.

This triggering of proactive compaction is done on a write to
sysctl.compaction_proactiveness by user.

[1]https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=facdaa917c4d5a376d09d25865f5a863f906234a

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak vm.rst, per Mike]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1627653207-12317-1-git-send-email-charante@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy <charante@codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <nigupta@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Revision tags: v5.14, v5.10.61, v5.10.60, v5.10.53, v5.10.52, v5.10.51, v5.10.50, v5.10.49
# 48d9f335 28-Jun-2021 Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>

docs: remove description of DISCONTIGMEM

Remove description of DISCONTIGMEM from the "Memory Models" document and
update VM sysctl description so that it won't mention DISCONIGMEM.

Link: https://lk

docs: remove description of DISCONTIGMEM

Remove description of DISCONTIGMEM from the "Memory Models" document and
update VM sysctl description so that it won't mention DISCONIGMEM.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608091316.3622-8-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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