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'msize' is often a power of two, or at least page-aligned, so avoiding an overhead of two dozen bytes for each allocation will help the allocator do its work and reduce memory fragmentation. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1533825236-22896-1-git-send-email-asmadeus@codewreck.org Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Dominique Martinet <dominique.martinet@cea.fr> Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> Acked-by: Jun Piao <piaojun@huawei.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.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.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
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.