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Vlastimil Babka cfb837e843 mm: document memalloc_noreclaim_save() and memalloc_pin_save()
The memalloc_noreclaim_save() function currently has no documentation
comment, so the implications of its usage are not obvious.  Namely that it
not only prevents entering reclaim (as the name suggests), but also allows
using all memory reserves and thus should be only used in contexts that
are allocating memory to free memory.  This may lead to new improper
usages being added.

Thus add a documenting comment, based on the description of
__GFP_MEMALLOC.  While at it, also document memalloc_pin_save() so that
all the memalloc_ scopes are documented.  For those already documented,
add missing Return: descriptions, and mark Context: description per
kernel-docs style guide.

In the comments describing the relevant PF_MEMALLOC flags, refer to their
scope setting functions.

[vbabka@suse.cz: fix issues that Mike pointed out]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215095827.13756-2-vbabka@suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240212182950.32730-2-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-02-22 10:24:57 -08:00
arch powerpc/mm: use pte_next_pfn() in set_ptes() 2024-02-22 10:24:51 -08:00
block blk-iocost: Fix an UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning 2024-02-08 10:11:39 -07:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto crypto: algif_hash - Remove bogus SGL free on zero-length error path 2024-02-02 18:08:12 +08:00
Documentation mm/cma: add sysfs file 'release_pages_success' 2024-02-22 10:24:57 -08:00
drivers zram: use copy_page for full page copy 2024-02-22 10:24:55 -08:00
fs userfaultfd: fix return error if mmap_changing is non-zero in MOVE ioctl 2024-02-22 10:24:38 -08:00
include mm: document memalloc_noreclaim_save() and memalloc_pin_save() 2024-02-22 10:24:57 -08:00
init arm64, powerpc, riscv, s390, x86: ptdump: refactor CONFIG_DEBUG_WX 2024-02-22 10:24:47 -08:00
io_uring io_uring/net: fix multishot accept overflow handling 2024-02-14 18:30:19 -07:00
ipc shm: Slim down dependencies 2023-12-20 19:26:31 -05:00
kernel mm/cma: drop CONFIG_CMA_DEBUG 2024-02-22 10:24:53 -08:00
lib XArray: add cmpxchg order test 2024-02-22 10:24:48 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm/zswap: optimize and cleanup the invalidation of duplicate entry 2024-02-22 10:24:57 -08:00
net Including fixes from can, wireless and netfilter. 2024-02-15 11:39:27 -08:00
rust Rust changes for v6.8 2024-01-11 13:05:41 -08:00
samples work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs 2024-02-09 15:57:48 -08:00
scripts scripts/gdb/vmalloc: fix vmallocinfo error 2024-02-21 16:00:02 -08:00
security lsm/stable-6.8 PR 20240215 2024-02-16 07:58:43 -08:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: More relaxed check of MIDI jack names 2024-02-15 16:56:05 +01:00
tools selftests/mm: log a consistent test name for check_compaction 2024-02-22 10:24:57 -08:00
usr Kbuild updates for v6.8 2024-01-18 17:57:07 -08:00
virt Generic: 2024-01-17 13:03:37 -08:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.7-rc4's for_each macro list 2023-12-08 23:54:38 +01:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
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.mailmap MAINTAINERS: mailmap: update Shakeel's email address 2024-02-20 14:20:50 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: supplement of zswap maintainers update 2024-01-25 23:52:21 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: mailmap: update Shakeel's email address 2024-02-20 14:20:50 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.8-rc5 2024-02-18 12:56:25 -08:00
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.