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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst | 66 |
3 files changed, 65 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst index 7de7a7272a5e..aa1a233b0fa8 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst @@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ ops mmap_lock PageLocked(page) open: yes close: yes fault: yes can return with page locked -map_pages: yes +map_pages: read page_mkwrite: yes can return with page locked pfn_mkwrite: yes access: yes @@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ locked. The VM will unlock the page. ->map_pages() is called when VM asks to map easy accessible pages. Filesystem should find and map pages associated with offsets from "start_pgoff" -till "end_pgoff". ->map_pages() is called with page table locked and must +till "end_pgoff". ->map_pages() is called with the RCU lock held and must not block. If it's not possible to reach a page without blocking, filesystem should skip it. Filesystem should use do_set_pte() to setup page table entry. Pointer to entry associated with the page is passed in diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst index 59db0bed35e1..8e02ebe093ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst @@ -996,6 +996,7 @@ Example output. You may not have all of these fields. VmallocUsed: 40444 kB VmallocChunk: 0 kB Percpu: 29312 kB + EarlyMemtestBad: 0 kB HardwareCorrupted: 0 kB AnonHugePages: 4149248 kB ShmemHugePages: 0 kB @@ -1146,6 +1147,13 @@ VmallocChunk Percpu Memory allocated to the percpu allocator used to back percpu allocations. This stat excludes the cost of metadata. +EarlyMemtestBad + The amount of RAM/memory in kB, that was identified as corrupted + by early memtest. If memtest was not run, this field will not + be displayed at all. Size is never rounded down to 0 kB. + That means if 0 kB is reported, you can safely assume + there was at least one pass of memtest and none of the passes + found a single faulty byte of RAM. HardwareCorrupted The amount of RAM/memory in KB, the kernel identifies as corrupted. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst index 0408c245785e..f18f46be5c0c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst @@ -13,17 +13,29 @@ everything stored therein is lost. tmpfs puts everything into the kernel internal caches and grows and shrinks to accommodate the files it contains and is able to swap -unneeded pages out to swap space. It has maximum size limits which can -be adjusted on the fly via 'mount -o remount ...' - -If you compare it to ramfs (which was the template to create tmpfs) -you gain swapping and limit checking. Another similar thing is the RAM -disk (/dev/ram*), which simulates a fixed size hard disk in physical -RAM, where you have to create an ordinary filesystem on top. Ramdisks -cannot swap and you do not have the possibility to resize them. - -Since tmpfs lives completely in the page cache and on swap, all tmpfs -pages will be shown as "Shmem" in /proc/meminfo and "Shared" in +unneeded pages out to swap space, if swap was enabled for the tmpfs +mount. tmpfs also supports THP. + +tmpfs extends ramfs with a few userspace configurable options listed and +explained further below, some of which can be reconfigured dynamically on the +fly using a remount ('mount -o remount ...') of the filesystem. A tmpfs +filesystem can be resized but it cannot be resized to a size below its current +usage. tmpfs also supports POSIX ACLs, and extended attributes for the +trusted.* and security.* namespaces. ramfs does not use swap and you cannot +modify any parameter for a ramfs filesystem. The size limit of a ramfs +filesystem is how much memory you have available, and so care must be taken if +used so to not run out of memory. + +An alternative to tmpfs and ramfs is to use brd to create RAM disks +(/dev/ram*), which allows you to simulate a block device disk in physical RAM. +To write data you would just then need to create an regular filesystem on top +this ramdisk. As with ramfs, brd ramdisks cannot swap. brd ramdisks are also +configured in size at initialization and you cannot dynamically resize them. +Contrary to brd ramdisks, tmpfs has its own filesystem, it does not rely on the +block layer at all. + +Since tmpfs lives completely in the page cache and optionally on swap, +all tmpfs pages will be shown as "Shmem" in /proc/meminfo and "Shared" in free(1). Notice that these counters also include shared memory (shmem, see ipcs(1)). The most reliable way to get the count is using df(1) and du(1). @@ -72,6 +84,8 @@ nr_inodes The maximum number of inodes for this instance. The default is half of the number of your physical RAM pages, or (on a machine with highmem) the number of lowmem RAM pages, whichever is the lower. +noswap Disables swap. Remounts must respect the original settings. + By default swap is enabled. ========= ============================================================ These parameters accept a suffix k, m or g for kilo, mega and giga and @@ -85,6 +99,36 @@ mount with such options, since it allows any user with write access to use up all the memory on the machine; but enhances the scalability of that instance in a system with many CPUs making intensive use of it. +tmpfs also supports Transparent Huge Pages which requires a kernel +configured with CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE and with huge supported for +your system (has_transparent_hugepage(), which is architecture specific). +The mount options for this are: + +====== ============================================================ +huge=0 never: disables huge pages for the mount +huge=1 always: enables huge pages for the mount +huge=2 within_size: only allocate huge pages if the page will be + fully within i_size, also respect fadvise()/madvise() hints. +huge=3 advise: only allocate huge pages if requested with + fadvise()/madvise() +====== ============================================================ + +There is a sysfs file which you can also use to control system wide THP +configuration for all tmpfs mounts, the file is: + +/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled + +This sysfs file is placed on top of THP sysfs directory and so is registered +by THP code. It is however only used to control all tmpfs mounts with one +single knob. Since it controls all tmpfs mounts it should only be used either +for emergency or testing purposes. The values you can set for shmem_enabled are: + +== ============================================================ +-1 deny: disables huge on shm_mnt and all mounts, for + emergency use +-2 force: enables huge on shm_mnt and all mounts, w/o needing + option, for testing +== ============================================================ tmpfs has a mount option to set the NUMA memory allocation policy for all files in that instance (if CONFIG_NUMA is enabled) - which can be |