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Patch series "Split ptdesc from struct page", v9. The MM subsystem is trying to shrink struct page. This patchset introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking - struct ptdesc. This patchset introduces ptdesc, splits ptdesc from struct page, and converts many callers of page table constructor/destructors to use ptdescs. Ptdesc is a foundation to further standardize page tables, and eventually allow for dynamic allocation of page tables independent of struct page. However, the use of pages for page table tracking is quite deeply ingrained and varied across archictectures, so there is still a lot of work to be done before that can happen. This patch (of 31): No folio equivalents for page type operations have been defined, so define them for later folio conversions. Also changes the Page##uname macros to take in const struct page* since we only read the memory here. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230807230513.102486-1-vishal.moola@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230807230513.102486-2-vishal.moola@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.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 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.