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Patch series "THP prep patches". These are some generic cleanups and improvements, which I would like merged into mmotm soon. The first one should be a performance improvement for all users of compound pages, and the others are aimed at getting code to compile away when CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is disabled (ie small systems). Also better documented / less confusing than the current prefix mixture of compound, hpage and thp. This patch (of 7): This removes a few instructions from functions which need to know how many pages are in a compound page. The storage used is either page->mapping on 64-bit or page->index on 32-bit. Both of these are fine to overlay on tail pages. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200629151959.15779-1-willy@infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200629151959.15779-2-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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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.