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PG_balloon was introduced to implement page migration/compaction for pages inflated in virtio-balloon. Nowadays, it is only a marker that a page is part of virtio-balloon and therefore logically offline. We also want to make use of this flag in other balloon drivers - for inflated pages or when onlining a section but keeping some pages offline (e.g. used right now by XEN and Hyper-V via set_online_page_callback()). We are going to expose this flag to dump tools like makedumpfile. But instead of exposing PG_balloon, let's generalize the concept of marking pages as logically offline, so it can be reused for other purposes later on. Rename PG_balloon to PG_offline. This is an indicator that the page is logically offline, the content stale and that it should not be touched (e.g. a hypervisor would have to allocate backing storage in order for the guest to dump an unused page). We can then e.g. exclude such pages from dumps. We replace and reuse KPF_BALLOON (23), as this shouldn't really harm (and for now the semantics stay the same). In following patches, we will make use of this bit also in other balloon drivers. While at it, document PGTABLE. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment text, per David] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181119101616.8901-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Acked-by: Pankaj gupta <pagupta@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Hansen <chansen3@cisco.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio@ab.jp.nec.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Julien Freche <jfreche@vmware.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com> Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com> Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Cc: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.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.