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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-02-23 20:50:35 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-02-23 20:50:35 -0500
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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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1What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm
2Date: September 2009
3KernelVersion: 2.6.32
4Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
5Description: Interface for Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM)
6
7What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/full_scans
8What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_shared
9What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_sharing
10What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_to_scan
11What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_unshared
12What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/pages_volatile
13What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run
14What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/sleep_millisecs
15Date: September 2009
16Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
17Description: 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
45What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes
46Date: January 2013
47KernelVersion: 3.9
48Contact: Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
49Description: 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).