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The ramdisk memory utilization can only go up when data is written to new pages. Implement discard to provide the possibility to reduce memory usage for pages no longer in use. Aligned discards will free the associated pages, if any, and determinisitically return zeroed data until written again. Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240429102308.147627-1-kbusch@meta.com Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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 reStructuredText 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.