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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-02-23 20:50:35 -0500 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-02-23 20:50:35 -0500 |
commit | 5ce1a70e2f00f0bce0cab57f798ca354b9496169 (patch) | |
tree | 6e80200536b7a3576fd71ff2c7135ffe87dc858e /Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm | |
parent | 9d3cae26acb471d5954cfdc25d1438b32060babe (diff) | |
parent | ef53d16cded7f89b3843b7a96970dab897843ea5 (diff) |
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 <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (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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1 | What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm | ||
2 | Date: September 2009 | ||
3 | KernelVersion: 2.6.32 | ||
4 | Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org> | ||
5 | Description: Interface for Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM) | ||
6 | |||
7 | What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/full_scans | ||
8 | What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_shared | ||
9 | What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_sharing | ||
10 | What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_to_scan | ||
11 | What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_unshared | ||
12 | What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_volatile | ||
13 | What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run | ||
14 | What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/sleep_millisecs | ||
15 | Date: September 2009 | ||
16 | Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org> | ||
17 | Description: Kernel Samepage Merging daemon sysfs interface | ||
18 | |||
19 | full_scans: how many times all mergeable areas have been | ||
20 | scanned. | ||
21 | |||
22 | pages_shared: how many shared pages are being used. | ||
23 | |||
24 | pages_sharing: how many more sites are sharing them i.e. how | ||
25 | much saved. | ||
26 | |||
27 | pages_to_scan: how many present pages to scan before ksmd goes | ||
28 | to sleep. | ||
29 | |||
30 | pages_unshared: how many pages unique but repeatedly checked | ||
31 | for merging. | ||
32 | |||
33 | pages_volatile: how many pages changing too fast to be placed | ||
34 | in a tree. | ||
35 | |||
36 | run: write 0 to disable ksm, read 0 while ksm is disabled. | ||
37 | write 1 to run ksm, read 1 while ksm is running. | ||
38 | write 2 to disable ksm and unmerge all its pages. | ||
39 | |||
40 | sleep_millisecs: how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between | ||
41 | scans. | ||
42 | |||
43 | See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information. | ||
44 | |||
45 | What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes | ||
46 | Date: January 2013 | ||
47 | KernelVersion: 3.9 | ||
48 | Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org> | ||
49 | Description: Control merging pages across different NUMA nodes. | ||
50 | |||
51 | When it is set to 0 only pages from the same node are merged, | ||
52 | otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default). | ||