The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm-ksm-document-smart-scan-mode-fix
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-ksm-document-smart-scan-mode-fix-2.patch
This patch was dropped because it was folded into mm-ksm-document-smart-scan-mode.patch
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm-ksm-document-smart-scan-mode-fix
Date: Tue Sep 26 05:48:29 PM PDT 2023
document that smart_scan defaults to on
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst~mm-ksm-document-smart-scan-mode-fix-2
+++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst
@@ -156,12 +156,12 @@ stable_node_chains_prune_millisecs
``max_page_sharing`` yet.
smart_scan
- By default KSM checks every candidate page for each scan. It does
- not take into account historic information. When smart scan is
+ Historically KSM checked every candidate page for each scan. It did
+ not take into account historic information. When smart scan is
enabled, pages that have previously not been de-duplicated get
skipped. How often these pages are skipped depends on how often
de-duplication has already been tried and failed. By default this
- optimization is disabled. The ``pages_skipped`` metric shows how
+ optimization is enabled. The ``pages_skipped`` metric shows how
effective the setting is.
The effectiveness of KSM and MADV_MERGEABLE is shown in ``/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/``:
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-shmem-fix-race-in-shmem_undo_range-w-thp-fix.patch
mm-ksm-document-smart-scan-mode.patch
fs-proc-task_mmu-implement-ioctl-to-get-and-optionally-clear-info-about-ptes-fix.patch
fs-proc-task_mmu-implement-ioctl-to-get-and-optionally-clear-info-about-ptes-fix-fix.patch
fs-proc-task_mmu-implement-ioctl-to-get-and-optionally-clear-info-about-ptes-fix-2.patch
mm-kmem-scoped-objcg-protection-checkpatch-fixes.patch
