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When a THP is added to the deferred_list due to partially mapped, its partial pages are unused, leading to wasted memory and potentially increasing memory reclamation pressure. Detailing the specifics of how unmapping occurs is quite difficult and not that useful, so we adopt a simple approach: each time a THP enters the deferred_list, we increment the count by 1; whenever it leaves for any reason, we decrement the count by 1. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240824010441.21308-3-21cnbao@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Cc: Chuanhua Han <hanchuanhua@oppo.com> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Shuai Yuan <yuanshuai@oppo.com> Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.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.