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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) fa307474c6 mm: update the documentation for vfree
Patch series "remove alloc_vm_area", v4.

This series removes alloc_vm_area, which was left over from the big
vmalloc interface rework.  It is a rather arkane interface, basicaly the
equivalent of get_vm_area + actually faulting in all PTEs in the allocated
area.  It was originally addeds for Xen (which isn't modular to start
with), and then grew users in zsmalloc and i915 which seems to mostly
qualify as abuses of the interface, especially for i915 as a random driver
should not set up PTE bits directly.

This patch (of 11):

 * Document that you can call vfree() on an address returned from vmap()
 * Remove the note about the minimum size -- the minimum size of a vmalloc
   allocation is one page
 * Add a Context: section
 * Fix capitalisation
 * Reword the prohibition on calling from NMI context to avoid a double
   negative

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201002122204.1534411-1-hch@lst.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201002122204.1534411-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-10-18 09:27:10 -07:00
arch mm/madvise: introduce process_madvise() syscall: an external memory hinting API 2020-10-18 09:27:10 -07:00
block docs: bio: fix a kerneldoc markup 2020-10-15 07:49:48 +02:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto drivers-5.10-2020-10-12 2020-10-13 13:04:41 -07:00
Documentation RDMA 5.10 pull request 2020-10-17 11:18:18 -07:00
drivers RDMA 5.10 pull request 2020-10-17 11:18:18 -07:00
fs mm/madvise: pass mm to do_madvise 2020-10-18 09:27:09 -07:00
include mm/madvise: introduce process_madvise() syscall: an external memory hinting API 2020-10-18 09:27:10 -07:00
init networking changes for the 5.10 merge window 2020-10-15 18:42:13 -07:00
ipc ipc: adjust proc_ipc_sem_dointvec definition to match prototype 2020-09-05 12:14:29 -07:00
kernel mm/madvise: introduce process_madvise() syscall: an external memory hinting API 2020-10-18 09:27:10 -07:00
lib RDMA 5.10 pull request 2020-10-17 11:18:18 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/deprecated: add Zlib license text 2020-09-16 14:33:49 +02:00
mm mm: update the documentation for vfree 2020-10-18 09:27:10 -07:00
net networking changes for the 5.10 merge window 2020-10-15 18:42:13 -07:00
samples networking changes for the 5.10 merge window 2020-10-15 18:42:13 -07:00
scripts docs updates for v5.10-rc1 2020-10-16 15:02:21 -07:00
security networking changes for the 5.10 merge window 2020-10-15 18:42:13 -07:00
sound dma-mapping updates for 5.10 2020-10-15 14:43:29 -07:00
tools selftests/vm: 10x speedup for hmm-tests 2020-10-18 09:27:09 -07:00
usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
virt KVM: fix memory leak in kvm_io_bus_unregister_dev() 2020-09-11 13:15:11 -04:00
.clang-format RDMA 5.10 pull request 2020-10-17 11:18:18 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: docs: ignore sphinx_*/ directories 2020-09-10 10:44:31 -06:00
.mailmap MAINTAINERS: jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com -> jarkko@kernel.org 2020-10-16 11:11:19 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS networking changes for the 5.10 merge window 2020-10-15 18:42:13 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS RDMA 5.10 pull request 2020-10-17 11:18:18 -07:00
Makefile networking changes for the 5.10 merge window 2020-10-15 18:42:13 -07:00
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.