The patch titled
Subject: ksm-add-ksm-involvement-information-for-each-process-fix
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
ksm-add-ksm-involvement-information-for-each-process-fix.patch
This patch will shortly appear at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/ksm-add-ksm-involvement-information-for-each-process-fix.patch
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: ksm-add-ksm-involvement-information-for-each-process-fix
Date: Mon Jan 13 06:48:34 PM PST 2025
wording tweaks, per David and akpm
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wang Yaxin <wang.yaxin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 16 +++++++++-------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst~ksm-add-ksm-involvement-information-for-each-process-fix
+++ a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -2257,10 +2257,10 @@ Description
ksm_rmap_items
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-The number of ksm_rmap_item structure in use. The structure of
-ksm_rmap_item is to store the reverse mapping information for virtual
-addresses. KSM will generate a ksm_rmap_item for each ksm-scanned page
-of the process.
+The number of ksm_rmap_item structures in use. The structure
+ksm_rmap_item stores the reverse mapping information for virtual
+addresses. KSM will generate a ksm_rmap_item for each ksm-scanned page of
+the process.
ksm_zero_pages
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -2289,14 +2289,16 @@ ksm_merge_any
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It specifies whether the process'mm is added by prctl() into the candidate list
-of KSM or not, and KSM scanning is fully enabled at process level.
+of KSM or not, and if KSM scanning is fully enabled at process level.
ksm_mergeable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-It specifies whether any VMAs of the process'mm are currently applicable to KSM.
+It specifies whether any VMAs of the process'mm are currently applicable
+to KSM.
-More information about KSM can be found at Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst.
+More information about KSM can be found in
+Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst.
Chapter 4: Configuring procfs
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-swap_cgroup-allocate-swap_cgroup-map-using-vcalloc-fix.patch
mm-page_alloc-add-some-detailed-comments-in-can_steal_fallback-fix.patch
mm-introduce-mmap_lock_speculate_try_beginretry-fix.patch
mm-damon-tests-vaddr-kunith-reduce-stack-consumption.patch
mm-damon-tests-vaddr-kunith-reduce-stack-consumption-fix.patch
mm-fix-outdated-incorrect-code-comments-for-handle_mm_fault-fix.patch
mm-huge_memoryc-rename-shadowed-local.patch
mm-shmem-skip-swapcache-for-swapin-of-synchronous-swap-device-fix.patch
ksm-add-ksm-involvement-information-for-each-process-fix.patch
documentation-filesystems-procrst-fix-possessive-form-of-process.patch
