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Vlastimil Babka b29940c1ab mm: rename and change semantics of nr_indirectly_reclaimable_bytes
The vmstat counter NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES was introduced by
commit eb59254608 ("mm: introduce NR_INDIRECTLY_RECLAIMABLE_BYTES") with
the goal of accounting objects that can be reclaimed, but cannot be
allocated via a SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT cache.  This is now possible via
kmalloc() with __GFP_RECLAIMABLE flag, and the dcache external names user
is converted.

The counter is however still useful for accounting direct page allocations
(i.e.  not slab) with a shrinker, such as the ION page pool.  So keep it,
and:

- change granularity to pages to be more like other counters; sub-page
  allocations should be able to use kmalloc
- rename the counter to NR_KERNEL_MISC_RECLAIMABLE
- expose the counter again in vmstat as "nr_kernel_misc_reclaimable"; we can
  again remove the check for not printing "hidden" counters

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180731090649.16028-5-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Vijayanand Jitta <vjitta@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
arch alpha: switch to NO_BOOTMEM 2018-10-26 16:25:20 -07:00
block for-4.20/block-20181021 2018-10-22 17:46:08 +01:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2018-10-25 16:43:35 -07:00
Documentation mm: remove references to vm_insert_pfn() 2018-10-26 16:25:20 -07:00
drivers mm: rename and change semantics of nr_indirectly_reclaimable_bytes 2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs dcache: allocate external names from reclaimable kmalloc caches 2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
include mm: rename and change semantics of nr_indirectly_reclaimable_bytes 2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
init Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-10-23 15:00:03 +01:00
ipc Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-10-25 11:14:36 -07:00
kernel mm: rework memcg kernel stack accounting 2018-10-26 16:25:19 -07:00
lib lib/test_kasan.c: add tests for several string/memory API functions 2018-10-26 16:25:18 -07:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm mm: rename and change semantics of nr_indirectly_reclaimable_bytes 2018-10-26 16:26:32 -07:00
net Merge branch 'for-4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2018-10-25 17:15:46 -07:00
samples Char/Misc driver patches for 4.20-rc1 2018-10-26 09:11:43 -07:00
scripts scripts/tags.sh: add DECLARE_HASHTABLE() 2018-10-26 16:25:18 -07:00
security Merge branch 'next-loadpin' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2018-10-25 13:32:00 -07:00
sound sound updates for 4.20 2018-10-25 09:00:15 -07:00
tools USB/PHY patches for 4.20-rc1 2018-10-26 08:14:13 -07:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt Revert "mm, mmu_notifier: annotate mmu notifiers with blockable invalidate callbacks" 2018-10-26 16:25:19 -07:00
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Char/Misc driver patches for 4.20-rc1 2018-10-26 09:11:43 -07:00
Makefile Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-10-23 13:08:53 +01:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

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.