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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst | 12 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst b/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst index 9daadf9faba1..ce398a7dc6cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst @@ -51,8 +51,7 @@ call :c:func:`free_area_init` function. Yet, the mappings array is not usable until the call to :c:func:`memblock_free_all` that hands all the memory to the page allocator. -If an architecture enables `CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL` option, -it may free parts of the `mem_map` array that do not cover the +An architecture may free parts of the `mem_map` array that do not cover the actual physical pages. In such case, the architecture specific :c:func:`pfn_valid` implementation should take the holes in the `mem_map` into account. diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst index 02deac76673f..4e67c2e9bbed 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst @@ -41,17 +41,17 @@ size change due to this facility. - Without page owner:: text data bss dec hex filename - 40662 1493 644 42799 a72f mm/page_alloc.o + 48392 2333 644 51369 c8a9 mm/page_alloc.o - With page owner:: text data bss dec hex filename - 40892 1493 644 43029 a815 mm/page_alloc.o - 1427 24 8 1459 5b3 mm/page_ext.o - 2722 50 0 2772 ad4 mm/page_owner.o + 48800 2445 644 51889 cab1 mm/page_alloc.o + 6574 108 29 6711 1a37 mm/page_owner.o + 1025 8 8 1041 411 mm/page_ext.o -Although, roughly, 4 KB code is added in total, page_alloc.o increase by -230 bytes and only half of it is in hotpath. Building the kernel with +Although, roughly, 8 KB code is added in total, page_alloc.o increase by +520 bytes and less than half of it is in hotpath. Building the kernel with page owner and turning it on if needed would be great option to debug kernel memory problem. |