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David Hildenbrand ca215086b1 mm: convert PG_balloon to PG_offline
PG_balloon was introduced to implement page migration/compaction for
pages inflated in virtio-balloon.  Nowadays, it is only a marker that a
page is part of virtio-balloon and therefore logically offline.

We also want to make use of this flag in other balloon drivers - for
inflated pages or when onlining a section but keeping some pages offline
(e.g.  used right now by XEN and Hyper-V via set_online_page_callback()).

We are going to expose this flag to dump tools like makedumpfile.  But
instead of exposing PG_balloon, let's generalize the concept of marking
pages as logically offline, so it can be reused for other purposes later
on.

Rename PG_balloon to PG_offline.  This is an indicator that the page is
logically offline, the content stale and that it should not be touched
(e.g.  a hypervisor would have to allocate backing storage in order for
the guest to dump an unused page).  We can then e.g.  exclude such pages
from dumps.

We replace and reuse KPF_BALLOON (23), as this shouldn't really harm
(and for now the semantics stay the same).  In following patches, we
will make use of this bit also in other balloon drivers.  While at it,
document PGTABLE.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment text, per David]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181119101616.8901-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pankaj gupta <pagupta@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Hansen <chansen3@cisco.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio@ab.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Julien Freche <jfreche@vmware.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Cc: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05 21:07:14 -08:00
Documentation mm: convert PG_balloon to PG_offline 2019-03-05 21:07:14 -08:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
arch sh: remove nargs from __SYSCALL 2019-03-05 21:07:13 -08:00
block for-linus-20190215 2019-02-15 09:12:28 -08:00
certs kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2019-03-05 09:09:55 -08:00
drivers mm/page_alloc.c: memory hotplug: free pages as higher order 2019-03-05 21:07:14 -08:00
firmware kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { } 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
fs mm: convert PG_balloon to PG_offline 2019-03-05 21:07:14 -08:00
include mm: convert PG_balloon to PG_offline 2019-03-05 21:07:14 -08:00
init revert "initramfs: cleanup incomplete rootfs" 2019-02-21 09:00:59 -08:00
ipc ipc: introduce ksys_ipc()/compat_ksys_ipc() for s390 2019-01-18 09:33:18 +01:00
kernel s390 updates for the 5.1 merge window 2019-03-05 11:13:10 -08:00
lib kasan: remove use after scope bugs detection. 2019-03-05 21:07:13 -08:00
mm mm/page_alloc.c: memory hotplug: free pages as higher order 2019-03-05 21:07:14 -08:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-03-04 13:26:15 -08:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2019-03-05 08:26:13 -08:00
scripts scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: handle RIP address with segment 2019-03-05 21:07:13 -08:00
security get rid of legacy 'get_ds()' function 2019-03-04 10:50:14 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 5.0 2019-02-20 09:42:52 -08:00
tools mm: convert PG_balloon to PG_offline 2019-03-05 21:07:14 -08:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt kvm: properly check debugfs dentry before using it 2019-02-28 08:57:32 -08:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update .clang-format with the latest for_each macro list 2019-01-19 19:26:06 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support for DT binding schema checks 2018-12-13 09:41:32 -06:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Mathieu Othacehe 2019-02-21 11:41:19 +00:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS CREDITS/MAINTAINERS: Retire parisc-linux.org email domain 2019-02-21 20:16:10 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: use assignment instead of define ... endef for filechk_* rules 2019-01-06 10:22:35 +09:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2019-03-05 09:09:55 -08:00
Makefile Linux 5.0 2019-03-03 15:21:29 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.