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Patch series "Allocate and free frozen pages", v3. Slab does not need to use the page refcount at all, and it can avoid an atomic operation on page free. Hugetlb wants to delay setting the refcount until it has assembled a complete gigantic page. We already have the ability to freeze a page (safely reduce its reference count to 0), so this patchset adds APIs to allocate and free pages which are in a frozen state. This patchset is also a step towards the Glorious Future in which struct page doesn't have a refcount; the users which need a refcount will have one in their per-allocation memdesc. This patch (of 15): Save 17 bytes of text by calculating page_zone() once instead of twice. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241125210149.2976098-1-willy@infradead.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241125210149.2976098-2-willy@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com> Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@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 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.