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In the huge pages tests, we may have lots of objects being trapped on the freelist as we hold the struct_mutex allowing the free worker no opportunity to recover the backing store. We also have stricter requirements and the desire for large contiguous pages, further increasing the allocation pressure. To reduce the chance of running out of memory, we could either drop the mutex and flush the free worker, or we could release the backing store directly. We do the latter in this patch for simplicity. References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107254 Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.william.auld@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.william.auld@gmail.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180717082334.18774-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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.