Several documents in Documentation/vm fit quite well into the "admin/user
guide" category. The documents that don't overload the reader with lots of
implementation details and provide coherent description of certain feature
can be moved to Documentation/admin-guide/mm.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node | 2 +-
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages | 2 +-
Documentation/{vm => admin-guide/mm}/hugetlbpage.rst | 0
Documentation/{vm => admin-guide/mm}/idle_page_tracking.rst | 2 +-
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst | 9 +++++++++
Documentation/{vm => admin-guide/mm}/pagemap.rst | 6 +++---
Documentation/{vm => admin-guide/mm}/soft-dirty.rst | 0
Documentation/{vm => admin-guide/mm}/userfaultfd.rst | 0
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 6 ++++--
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 4 ++--
Documentation/vm/00-INDEX | 10 ----------
Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst | 2 +-
Documentation/vm/index.rst | 5 -----
fs/Kconfig | 2 +-
fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 4 ++--
mm/Kconfig | 5 +++--
16 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
rename Documentation/{vm => admin-guide/mm}/hugetlbpage.rst (100%)
rename Documentation/{vm => admin-guide/mm}/idle_page_tracking.rst (98%)
rename Documentation/{vm => admin-guide/mm}/pagemap.rst (96%)
rename Documentation/{vm => admin-guide/mm}/soft-dirty.rst (100%)
rename Documentation/{vm => admin-guide/mm}/userfaultfd.rst (100%)
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node
index b38f4b7..3e90e1f 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node
@@ -90,4 +90,4 @@ Date: December 2009
Contact: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@xxxxxx>
Description:
The node's huge page size control/query attributes.
- See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst
\ No newline at end of file
+ See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages
index 5140b23..fdaa216 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ Description:
free_hugepages
surplus_hugepages
resv_hugepages
- See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst for details.
+ See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
similarity index 100%
rename from Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst
rename to Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst
similarity index 98%
rename from Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.rst
rename to Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst
index d1c4609..92e3a25 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ workload one should:
are not reclaimable, he or she can filter them out using
``/proc/kpageflags``.
-See Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst for more information about
+See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst for more information about
``/proc/pid/pagemap``, ``/proc/kpageflags``, and ``/proc/kpagecgroup``.
.. _impl_details:
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst
index c47c16e..6c8b554 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst
@@ -17,3 +17,12 @@ are described in Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt and in `man 5 proc`_.
Here we document in detail how to interact with various mechanisms in
the Linux memory management.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ hugetlbpage
+ idle_page_tracking
+ pagemap
+ soft-dirty
+ userfaultfd
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst
similarity index 96%
rename from Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst
rename to Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst
index 7ba8cbd..053ca64 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ There are four components to pagemap:
* Bits 0-54 page frame number (PFN) if present
* Bits 0-4 swap type if swapped
* Bits 5-54 swap offset if swapped
- * Bit 55 pte is soft-dirty (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.rst)
+ * Bit 55 pte is soft-dirty (see Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst)
* Bit 56 page exclusively mapped (since 4.2)
* Bits 57-60 zero
* Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon (since 3.5)
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags
A compound page with order N consists of 2^N physically contiguous pages.
A compound page with order 2 takes the form of "HTTT", where H donates its
head page and T donates its tail page(s). The major consumers of compound
- pages are hugeTLB pages (Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst), the SLUB etc.
+ pages are hugeTLB pages (Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst), the SLUB etc.
memory allocators and various device drivers. However in this interface,
only huge/giga pages are made visible to end users.
16 - COMPOUND_TAIL
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags
zero page for pfn_zero or huge_zero page
25 - IDLE
page has not been accessed since it was marked idle (see
- Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.rst). Note that this flag may be
+ Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst). Note that this flag may be
stale in case the page was accessed via a PTE. To make sure the flag
is up-to-date one has to read ``/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap`` first.
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst
similarity index 100%
rename from Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.rst
rename to Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/userfaultfd.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst
similarity index 100%
rename from Documentation/vm/userfaultfd.rst
rename to Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 2d3984c..ef53f80 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -515,7 +515,8 @@ guarantees:
The /proc/PID/clear_refs is used to reset the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG
bits on both physical and virtual pages associated with a process, and the
-soft-dirty bit on pte (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.rst for details).
+soft-dirty bit on pte (see Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst
+for details).
To clear the bits for all the pages associated with the process
> echo 1 > /proc/PID/clear_refs
@@ -536,7 +537,8 @@ Any other value written to /proc/PID/clear_refs will have no effect.
The /proc/pid/pagemap gives the PFN, which can be used to find the pageflags
using /proc/kpageflags and number of times a page is mapped using
-/proc/kpagecount. For detailed explanation, see Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst.
+/proc/kpagecount. For detailed explanation, see
+Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst.
The /proc/pid/numa_maps is an extension based on maps, showing the memory
locality and binding policy, as well as the memory usage (in pages) of
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index c8e6d5b..697ef8c 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ nr_hugepages
Change the minimum size of the hugepage pool.
-See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst
+See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
==============================================================
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ nr_overcommit_hugepages
Change the maximum size of the hugepage pool. The maximum is
nr_hugepages + nr_overcommit_hugepages.
-See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst
+See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst
==============================================================
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX b/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX
index cda564d..f8a96ca 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX
@@ -12,14 +12,10 @@ highmem.rst
- Outline of highmem and common issues.
hmm.rst
- Documentation of heterogeneous memory management
-hugetlbpage.rst
- - a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in the Linux kernel.
hugetlbfs_reserv.rst
- A brief overview of hugetlbfs reservation design/implementation.
hwpoison.rst
- explains what hwpoison is
-idle_page_tracking.rst
- - description of the idle page tracking feature.
ksm.rst
- how to use the Kernel Samepage Merging feature.
mmu_notifier.rst
@@ -34,16 +30,12 @@ page_frags.rst
- description of page fragments allocator
page_migration.rst
- description of page migration in NUMA systems.
-pagemap.rst
- - pagemap, from the userspace perspective
page_owner.rst
- tracking about who allocated each page
remap_file_pages.rst
- a note about remap_file_pages() system call
slub.rst
- a short users guide for SLUB.
-soft-dirty.rst
- - short explanation for soft-dirty PTEs
split_page_table_lock.rst
- Separate per-table lock to improve scalability of the old page_table_lock.
swap_numa.rst
@@ -52,8 +44,6 @@ transhuge.rst
- Transparent Hugepage Support, alternative way of using hugepages.
unevictable-lru.rst
- Unevictable LRU infrastructure
-userfaultfd.rst
- - description of userfaultfd system call
z3fold.txt
- outline of z3fold allocator for storing compressed pages
zsmalloc.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst
index 070aa1e..09bd24a 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst
+++ b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Testing
value). This allows stress testing of many kinds of
pages. The page_flags are the same as in /proc/kpageflags. The
flag bits are defined in include/linux/kernel-page-flags.h and
- documented in Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst
+ documented in Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst
* Architecture specific MCE injector
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/index.rst b/Documentation/vm/index.rst
index 6c45142..ed58cb9 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/vm/index.rst
@@ -13,15 +13,10 @@ various features of the Linux memory management
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
- hugetlbpage
- idle_page_tracking
ksm
numa_memory_policy
- pagemap
transhuge
- soft-dirty
swap_numa
- userfaultfd
zswap
Kernel developers MM documentation
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index ba53dc2..ac4ac90 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ config HUGETLBFS
help
hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on
ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read
- <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst> for details.
+ <file:Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst> for details.
If unsure, say N.
diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
index 333cda8..ed48b6e 100644
--- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
+++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -937,7 +937,7 @@ static inline void clear_soft_dirty(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
/*
* The soft-dirty tracker uses #PF-s to catch writes
* to pages, so write-protect the pte as well. See the
- * Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.rst for full description
+ * Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for full description
* of how soft-dirty works.
*/
pte_t ptent = *pte;
@@ -1417,7 +1417,7 @@ static int pagemap_hugetlb_range(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long hmask,
* Bits 0-54 page frame number (PFN) if present
* Bits 0-4 swap type if swapped
* Bits 5-54 swap offset if swapped
- * Bit 55 pte is soft-dirty (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.rst)
+ * Bit 55 pte is soft-dirty (see Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst)
* Bit 56 page exclusively mapped
* Bits 57-60 zero
* Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 9bdb018..2d7ef62 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ config MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
into a page just as regular dirty bit, but unlike the latter
it can be cleared by hands.
- See Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.rst for more details.
+ See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst for more details.
config ZSWAP
bool "Compressed cache for swap pages (EXPERIMENTAL)"
@@ -656,7 +656,8 @@ config IDLE_PAGE_TRACKING
be useful to tune memory cgroup limits and/or for job placement
within a compute cluster.
- See Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.rst for more details.
+ See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/idle_page_tracking.rst for
+ more details.
# arch_add_memory() comprehends device memory
config ARCH_HAS_ZONE_DEVICE
--
2.7.4
