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Mel Gorman 387ba26fb1 mm/page_alloc: add a bulk page allocator
This patch adds a new page allocator interface via alloc_pages_bulk, and
__alloc_pages_bulk_nodemask.  A caller requests a number of pages to be
allocated and added to a list.

The API is not guaranteed to return the requested number of pages and
may fail if the preferred allocation zone has limited free memory, the
cpuset changes during the allocation or page debugging decides to fail
an allocation.  It's up to the caller to request more pages in batch if
necessary.

Note that this implementation is not very efficient and could be
improved but it would require refactoring.  The intent is to make it
available early to determine what semantics are required by different
callers.  Once the full semantics are nailed down, it can be refactored.

[mgorman@techsingularity.net: fix alloc_pages_bulk() return type, per Matthew]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210325123713.GQ3697@techsingularity.net
[mgorman@techsingularity.net: fix uninit var warning]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210330114847.GX3697@techsingularity.net
[mgorman@techsingularity.net: fix comment, per Vlastimil]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210412110255.GV3697@techsingularity.net

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210325114228.27719-3-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>
Tested-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-04-30 11:20:43 -07:00
arch mm: move mem_init_print_info() into mm_init() 2021-04-30 11:20:42 -07:00
block cgroup: rstat: punt root-level optimization to individual controllers 2021-04-30 11:20:37 -07:00
certs certs: add 'x509_revocation_list' to gitignore 2021-04-26 10:48:07 -07:00
crypto for-5.13/drivers-2021-04-27 2021-04-28 14:39:37 -07:00
Documentation mm/mempolicy: fix mpol_misplaced kernel-doc 2021-04-30 11:20:43 -07:00
drivers mm/vmalloc: remove unmap_kernel_range 2021-04-30 11:20:40 -07:00
fs Revert "mremap: don't allow MREMAP_DONTUNMAP on special_mappings and aio" 2021-04-30 11:20:39 -07:00
include mm/page_alloc: add a bulk page allocator 2021-04-30 11:20:43 -07:00
init mm: move mem_init_print_info() into mm_init() 2021-04-30 11:20:42 -07:00
ipc fs: make helpers idmap mount aware 2021-01-24 14:27:20 +01:00
kernel irq_work: record irq_work_queue() call stack 2021-04-30 11:20:42 -07:00
lib kasan: detect false-positives in tests 2021-04-30 11:20:42 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license 2020-12-08 10:33:27 -07:00
mm mm/page_alloc: add a bulk page allocator 2021-04-30 11:20:43 -07:00
net Networking changes for 5.13. 2021-04-29 11:57:23 -07:00
samples samples/vfio-mdev/mdpy: use remap_vmalloc_range 2021-04-30 11:20:39 -07:00
scripts scripts: a new script for checking duplicate struct declaration 2021-04-30 11:20:35 -07:00
security Networking changes for 5.13. 2021-04-29 11:57:23 -07:00
sound - Core Frameworks 2021-04-28 15:59:13 -07:00
tools vm/test_vmalloc.sh: adapt for updated driver interface 2021-04-30 11:20:40 -07:00
usr Kbuild updates for v5.12 2021-02-25 10:17:31 -08:00
virt KVM: x86/mmu: Consider the hva in mmu_notifier retry 2021-02-22 13:16:53 -05:00
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.gitignore kbuild: generate Module.symvers only when vmlinux exists 2021-04-25 05:17:02 +09:00
.mailmap It's been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, though more than usually 2021-04-26 13:22:43 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS - Core Frameworks 2021-04-28 15:59:13 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: assign pagewalk.h to MEMORY MANAGEMENT 2021-04-30 11:20:41 -07:00
Makefile Kconfig updates for v5.13 2021-04-29 14:32:00 -07:00
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.