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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-04 21:34:27 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-04 21:34:27 +0200
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Merge tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around, including: - Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport. - An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script to keep it updated. - Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check SPDX tags. - Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this involved a fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of Documentation/ ... and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (103 commits) Documentation: document hung_task_panic kernel parameter docs/admin-guide/mm: add high level concepts overview docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section. docs: Use the kerneldoc comments for memalloc_no*() doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables docs/vm: transhuge: split userspace bits to admin-guide/mm/transhuge docs/vm: transhuge: minor updates docs/vm: transhuge: change sections order Documentation: arm: clean up Marvell Berlin family info Documentation: gpio: driver: Fix a typo and some odd grammar docs: ranoops.rst: fix location of ramoops.txt scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: rewrite it in perl with auto-fix mode docs: uio-howto.rst: use a code block to solve a warning mm, THP, doc: Add document for thp_swpout/thp_swpout_fallback w1: w1_io.c: fix a kernel-doc warning Documentation/process/posting: wrap text at 80 cols docs: admin-guide: add cgroup-v2 documentation Revert "Documentation/features/vm: Remove arch support status file for 'pte_special'" Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc. ...
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@@ -515,7 +515,8 @@ guarantees:
The /proc/PID/clear_refs is used to reset the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG
bits on both physical and virtual pages associated with a process, and the
-soft-dirty bit on pte (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for details).
+soft-dirty bit on pte (see Documentation/admin-guide/mm/soft-dirty.rst
+for details).
To clear the bits for all the pages associated with the process
> echo 1 > /proc/PID/clear_refs
@@ -536,7 +537,8 @@ Any other value written to /proc/PID/clear_refs will have no effect.
The /proc/pid/pagemap gives the PFN, which can be used to find the pageflags
using /proc/kpageflags and number of times a page is mapped using
-/proc/kpagecount. For detailed explanation, see Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt.
+/proc/kpagecount. For detailed explanation, see
+Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst.
The /proc/pid/numa_maps is an extension based on maps, showing the memory
locality and binding policy, as well as the memory usage (in pages) of
@@ -564,7 +566,7 @@ address policy mapping details
Where:
"address" is the starting address for the mapping;
-"policy" reports the NUMA memory policy set for the mapping (see vm/numa_memory_policy.txt);
+"policy" reports the NUMA memory policy set for the mapping (see Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst);
"mapping details" summarizes mapping data such as mapping type, page usage counters,
node locality page counters (N0 == node0, N1 == node1, ...) and the kernel page
size, in KB, that is backing the mapping up.