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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Yama.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Yama.rst index d0a060de3973..d9cd937ebd2d 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Yama.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/Yama.rst @@ -19,9 +19,10 @@ attach to other running processes (e.g. Firefox, SSH sessions, GPG agent, etc) to extract additional credentials and continue to expand the scope of their attack without resorting to user-assisted phishing. -This is not a theoretical problem. SSH session hijacking -(http://www.storm.net.nz/projects/7) and arbitrary code injection -(http://c-skills.blogspot.com/2007/05/injectso.html) attacks already +This is not a theoretical problem. `SSH session hijacking +<https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-05/bh-us-05-boileau.pdf>`_ +and `arbitrary code injection +<https://c-skills.blogspot.com/2007/05/injectso.html>`_ attacks already exist and remain possible if ptrace is allowed to operate as before. Since ptrace is not commonly used by non-developers and non-admins, system builders should be allowed the option to disable this debugging system. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/drbd/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/drbd/index.rst index 68ecd5c113e9..561fd1e35917 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/drbd/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/drbd/index.rst @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Description clusters and in this context, is a "drop-in" replacement for shared storage. Simplistically, you could see it as a network RAID 1. - Please visit http://www.drbd.org to find out more. + Please visit https://www.drbd.org to find out more. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst index 4a8f31cf4139..0328438ebe2c 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ FAQ list: ========= A FAQ list may be found in the fdutils package (see below), and also -at <http://fdutils.linux.lu/faq.html>. +at <https://fdutils.linux.lu/faq.html>. LILO configuration options (Thinkpad users, read this) @@ -220,11 +220,11 @@ It also contains additional documentation about the floppy driver. The latest version can be found at fdutils homepage: - http://fdutils.linux.lu + https://fdutils.linux.lu The fdutils releases can be found at: - http://fdutils.linux.lu/download.html + https://fdutils.linux.lu/download.html http://www.tux.org/pub/knaff/fdutils/ diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/rdma.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/rdma.rst index 2fcb0a9bf790..e69369b7252e 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/rdma.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/rdma.rst @@ -114,4 +114,4 @@ Following resources can be accounted by rdma controller. (d) Delete resource limit:: - echo echo mlx4_0 hca_handle=max hca_object=max > /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma/1/rdma.max + echo mlx4_0 hca_handle=max hca_object=max > /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma/1/rdma.max diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst index a789755c311d..fa4018afa5a4 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst @@ -1683,9 +1683,9 @@ per-cgroup dirty memory states are examined and the more restrictive of the two is enforced. cgroup writeback requires explicit support from the underlying -filesystem. Currently, cgroup writeback is implemented on ext2, ext4 -and btrfs. On other filesystems, all writeback IOs are attributed to -the root cgroup. +filesystem. Currently, cgroup writeback is implemented on ext2, ext4, +btrfs, f2fs, and xfs. On other filesystems, all writeback IOs are +attributed to the root cgroup. There are inherent differences in memory and writeback management which affects how cgroup ownership is tracked. Memory is tracked per @@ -2042,7 +2042,7 @@ RDMA ---- The "rdma" controller regulates the distribution and accounting of -of RDMA resources. +RDMA resources. RDMA Interface Files ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/todo.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/todo.rst index 084c25f92dcb..25f11576e7b9 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/todo.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/todo.rst @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ x) Finish support for SMB3.1.1 compression Known Bugs ========== -See http://bugzilla.samba.org - search on product "CifsVFS" for +See https://bugzilla.samba.org - search on product "CifsVFS" for current bug list. Also check http://bugzilla.kernel.org (Product = File System, Component = CIFS) 1) existing symbolic links (Windows reparse points) are recognized but diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/usage.rst index d3fb67b8a976..7b32d5063803 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/usage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/usage.rst @@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ standard for interoperating between Macs and Windows and major NAS appliances. Please see MS-SMB2 (for detailed SMB2/SMB3/SMB3.1.1 protocol specification) -http://protocolfreedom.org/ and -http://samba.org/samba/PFIF/ +or https://samba.org/samba/PFIF/ for more details. @@ -32,7 +31,7 @@ Build instructions For Linux: -1) Download the kernel (e.g. from http://www.kernel.org) +1) Download the kernel (e.g. from https://www.kernel.org) and change directory into the top of the kernel directory tree (e.g. /usr/src/linux-2.5.73) 2) make menuconfig (or make xconfig) @@ -831,7 +830,7 @@ the active sessions and the shares that are mounted. Enabling Kerberos (extended security) works but requires version 1.2 or later of the helper program cifs.upcall to be present and to be configured in the /etc/request-key.conf file. The cifs.upcall helper program is from the Samba -project(http://www.samba.org). NTLM and NTLMv2 and LANMAN support do not +project(https://www.samba.org). NTLM and NTLMv2 and LANMAN support do not require this helper. Note that NTLMv2 security (which does not require the cifs.upcall helper program), instead of using Kerberos, is sufficient for some use cases. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/winucase_convert.pl b/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/winucase_convert.pl index 322a9c833f23..993186beea20 100755 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/winucase_convert.pl +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/winucase_convert.pl @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License -# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. +# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. # while(<>) { diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/dell_rbu.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/dell_rbu.rst index 8d70e1fc9f9d..2196caf1b939 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/dell_rbu.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/dell_rbu.rst @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Please go to http://support.dell.com register and you can find info on OpenManage and Dell Update packages (DUP). Libsmbios can also be used to update BIOS on Dell systems go to -http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/ for details. +https://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/ for details. Dell_RBU driver supports BIOS update using the monolithic image and packetized image methods. In case of monolithic the driver allocates a contiguous chunk diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst index 9edd45593abd..3ab4f7756a6e 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ To use the target for the first time: will format the device 3. unload the dm-integrity target 4. read the "provided_data_sectors" value from the superblock -5. load the dm-integrity target with the the target size +5. load the dm-integrity target with the target size "provided_data_sectors" 6. if you want to use dm-integrity with dm-crypt, load the dm-crypt target with the size "provided_data_sectors" @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ interleave_sectors:number the superblock is used. meta_device:device - Don't interleave the data and metadata on on device. Use a + Don't interleave the data and metadata on the device. Use a separate device for metadata. buffer_sectors:number diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-raid.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-raid.rst index 695a2ea1d1ae..7ef9fe63b3d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-raid.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-raid.rst @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ The target is named "raid" and it accepts the following parameters:: ============= =============================================================== Reference: Chapter 4 of - http://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/SNIA_DDF_Technical_Position_v2.0.pdf + https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/SNIA_DDF_Technical_Position_v2.0.pdf <#raid_params>: The number of parameters that follow. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-zoned.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-zoned.rst index 553752ea2521..e635041351bc 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-zoned.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-zoned.rst @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ host-aware zoned block devices. For a more detailed description of the zoned block device models and their constraints see (for SCSI devices): -http://www.t10.org/drafts.htm#ZBC_Family +https://www.t10.org/drafts.htm#ZBC_Family and (for ATA devices): diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt index 2a97aaec8b12..d336f3f73a4c 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt @@ -375,8 +375,9 @@ 239 = /dev/uhid User-space I/O driver support for HID subsystem 240 = /dev/userio Serio driver testing device 241 = /dev/vhost-vsock Host kernel driver for virtio vsock + 242 = /dev/rfkill Turning off radio transmissions (rfkill) - 242-254 Reserved for local use + 243-254 Reserved for local use 255 Reserved for MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR 11 char Raw keyboard device (Linux/SPARC only) @@ -1442,7 +1443,7 @@ ... The driver and documentation may be obtained from - http://www.winradio.com/ + https://www.winradio.com/ 82 block I2O hard disk 0 = /dev/i2o/hdag 33rd I2O hard disk, whole disk @@ -1656,7 +1657,7 @@ dynamically, so there is no fixed mapping from subdevice pathnames to minor numbers. - See http://www.comedi.org/ for information about the Comedi + See https://www.comedi.org/ for information about the Comedi project. 98 block User-mode virtual block device @@ -1723,7 +1724,7 @@ implementations a kernel presence for caching and easy mounting. For more information about the project, write to <arla-drinkers@stacken.kth.se> or see - http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/arla/ + https://www.stacken.kth.se/project/arla/ 103 block Audit device 0 = /dev/audit Audit device diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst index 2162d7909970..a683976fad6d 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst @@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ kernel source: <file:fs/ext4/> programs: http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/ -useful links: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ext3-devel +useful links: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ext3-devel http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/ http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Ext4 + https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Ext4 diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst index 47b1b3afac99..3b1ce68d2456 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/special-register-buffer-data-sampling.rst @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ to the core through the special register mechanism that is susceptible to MDS attacks. Affected processors --------------------- +------------------- Core models (desktop, mobile, Xeon-E3) that implement RDRAND and/or RDSEED may be affected. @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ executed on another core or sibling thread using MDS techniques. Mitigation mechanism -------------------- +-------------------- Intel will release microcode updates that modify the RDRAND, RDSEED, and EGETKEY instructions to overwrite secret special register data in the shared staging buffer before the secret data can be accessed by another logical @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ with the option "srbds=". The option for this is: ============= ============================================================= SRBDS System Information ------------------------ +------------------------ The Linux kernel provides vulnerability status information through sysfs. For SRBDS this can be accessed by the following sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/srbds diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst index 58c7f9fc2396..ed1cf94ea50c 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ problems and bugs in particular. init kdump/index perf/index + pstore-blk This is the beginning of a section with information of interest to application developers. Documents covering various aspects of the kernel diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index ad929b807b26..ff5018b39ed0 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1212,26 +1212,28 @@ Format: {"off" | "on" | "skip[mbr]"} efi= [EFI] - Format: { "old_map", "nochunk", "noruntime", "debug", - "nosoftreserve", "disable_early_pci_dma", - "no_disable_early_pci_dma" } - old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI - runtime services mapping. [Needs CONFIG_X86_UV=y] + Format: { "debug", "disable_early_pci_dma", + "nochunk", "noruntime", "nosoftreserve", + "novamap", "no_disable_early_pci_dma", + "old_map" } + debug: enable misc debug output. + disable_early_pci_dma: disable the busmaster bit on all + PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub. nochunk: disable reading files in "chunks" in the EFI boot stub, as chunking can cause problems with some firmware implementations. noruntime : disable EFI runtime services support - debug: enable misc debug output nosoftreserve: The EFI_MEMORY_SP (Specific Purpose) attribute may cause the kernel to reserve the memory range for a memory mapping driver to claim. Specify efi=nosoftreserve to disable this reservation and treat the memory by its base type (i.e. EFI_CONVENTIONAL_MEMORY / "System RAM"). - disable_early_pci_dma: Disable the busmaster bit on all - PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub + novamap: do not call SetVirtualAddressMap(). no_disable_early_pci_dma: Leave the busmaster bit set on all PCI bridges while in the EFI boot stub + old_map [X86-64]: switch to the old ioremap-based EFI + runtime services mapping. [Needs CONFIG_X86_UV=y] efi_no_storage_paranoia [EFI; X86] Using this parameter you can use more than 50% of @@ -2791,7 +2793,7 @@ touchscreen support is not enabled in the mainstream kernel as of 2.6.30, a preliminary port can be found in the "bleeding edge" mini2440 support kernel at - http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git + https://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/mini2440.git mitigations= [X86,PPC,S390,ARM64] Control optional mitigations for diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/disk-shock-protection.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/disk-shock-protection.rst index e97c5f78d8c3..22c7ec3e84cf 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/disk-shock-protection.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/disk-shock-protection.rst @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ single project which, although still considered experimental, is fit for use. Please feel free to add projects that have been the victims of my ignorance. -- http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/HDAPS +- https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/HDAPS See this page for information about Linux support of the hard disk active protection system as implemented in IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst index c6eaaf48f7c1..190da1234314 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/sonypi.rst @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ Bugs: different way to adjust the backlighting of the screen. There is a userspace utility to adjust the brightness on those models, which can be downloaded from - http://www.acc.umu.se/~erikw/program/smartdimmer-0.1.tar.bz2 + https://www.acc.umu.se/~erikw/program/smartdimmer-0.1.tar.bz2 - since all development was done by reverse engineering, there is *absolutely no guarantee* that this driver will not crash your diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.rst index fb0d346bf31a..5e477869df18 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.rst @@ -905,7 +905,7 @@ temperatures: The mapping of thermal sensors to physical locations varies depending on system-board model (and thus, on ThinkPad model). -http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors is a public wiki page that +https://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors is a public wiki page that tries to track down these locations for various models. Most (newer?) models seem to follow this pattern: @@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ For the R51 (source: Thomas Gruber): - 3: Internal HDD For the T43, T43/p (source: Shmidoax/Thinkwiki.org) -http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors#ThinkPad_T43.2C_T43p +https://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors#ThinkPad_T43.2C_T43p - 2: System board, left side (near PCMCIA slot), reported as HDAPS temp - 3: PCMCIA slot @@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors#ThinkPad_T43.2C_T43p - 11: Power regulator, underside of system board, below F2 key The A31 has a very atypical layout for the thermal sensors -(source: Milos Popovic, http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors#ThinkPad_A31) +(source: Milos Popovic, https://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors#ThinkPad_A31) - 1: CPU - 2: Main Battery: main sensor diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/building.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/building.rst index c898e3a981c1..2d660b76caea 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/building.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/building.rst @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ built as modules. Those GPU-specific drivers are selected via the ``Graphics support`` menu, under ``Device Drivers``. - When a GPU driver supports supports HDMI CEC, it will automatically + When a GPU driver supports HDMI CEC, it will automatically enable the CEC core support at the media subsystem. Media dependencies @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ functionality. If you have an hybrid card, you may need to enable both ``Analog TV`` and ``Digital TV`` at the menu. -When using this option, the defaults for the the media support core +When using this option, the defaults for the media support core functionality are usually good enough to provide the basic functionality for the driver. Yet, you could manually enable some desired extra (optional) functionality using the settings under each of the following diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst index c2531b14bf46..fa0974fbeae7 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ physical memory (demand paging) and provides a mechanism for the protection and controlled sharing of data between processes. With virtual memory, each and every memory access uses a virtual -address. When the CPU decodes the an instruction that reads (or +address. When the CPU decodes an instruction that reads (or writes) from (or to) the system memory, it translates the `virtual` address encoded in that instruction to a `physical` address that the memory controller can understand. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst index 5026e58826e2..015a5f7d7854 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst @@ -101,37 +101,48 @@ be specified in bytes with optional scale suffix [kKmMgG]. The default huge page size may be selected with the "default_hugepagesz=<size>" boot parameter. Hugetlb boot command line parameter semantics -hugepagesz - Specify a huge page size. Used in conjunction with hugepages + +hugepagesz + Specify a huge page size. Used in conjunction with hugepages parameter to preallocate a number of huge pages of the specified size. Hence, hugepagesz and hugepages are typically specified in - pairs such as: + pairs such as:: + hugepagesz=2M hugepages=512 + hugepagesz can only be specified once on the command line for a specific huge page size. Valid huge page sizes are architecture dependent. -hugepages - Specify the number of huge pages to preallocate. This typically +hugepages + Specify the number of huge pages to preallocate. This typically follows a valid hugepagesz or default_hugepagesz parameter. However, if hugepages is the first or only hugetlb command line parameter it implicitly specifies the number of huge pages of default size to allocate. If the number of huge pages of default size is implicitly specified, it can not be overwritten by a hugepagesz,hugepages parameter pair for the default size. - For example, on an architecture with 2M default huge page size: + + For example, on an architecture with 2M default huge page size:: + hugepages=256 hugepagesz=2M hugepages=512 + will result in 256 2M huge pages being allocated and a warning message indicating that the hugepages=512 parameter is ignored. If a hugepages parameter is preceded by an invalid hugepagesz parameter, it will be ignored. -default_hugepagesz - Specify the default huge page size. This parameter can +default_hugepagesz + pecify the default huge page size. This parameter can only be specified once on the command line. default_hugepagesz can optionally be followed by the hugepages parameter to preallocate a specific number of huge pages of default size. The number of default sized huge pages to preallocate can also be implicitly specified as mentioned in the hugepages section above. Therefore, on an - architecture with 2M default huge page size: + architecture with 2M default huge page size:: + hugepages=256 default_hugepagesz=2M hugepages=256 hugepages=256 default_hugepagesz=2M + will all result in 256 2M huge pages being allocated. Valid default huge page size is architecture dependent. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst index 11db46448354..cd727cfc1b04 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ the Linux memory management. idle_page_tracking ksm memory-hotplug + nommu-mmap numa_memory_policy numaperf pagemap diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst index 874eb0c77d34..97d816791aca 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Overview KSM is a memory-saving de-duplication feature, enabled by CONFIG_KSM=y, added to the Linux kernel in 2.6.32. See ``mm/ksm.c`` for its implementation, -and http://lwn.net/Articles/306704/ and http://lwn.net/Articles/330589/ +and http://lwn.net/Articles/306704/ and https://lwn.net/Articles/330589/ KSM was originally developed for use with KVM (where it was known as Kernel Shared Memory), to fit more virtual machines into physical memory, @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ with EAGAIN, but more probably arousing the Out-Of-Memory killer. If KSM is not configured into the running kernel, madvise MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE simply fail with EINVAL. If the running kernel was built with CONFIG_KSM=y, those calls will normally succeed: even if the -the KSM daemon is not currently running, MADV_MERGEABLE still registers +KSM daemon is not currently running, MADV_MERGEABLE still registers the range for whenever the KSM daemon is started; even if the range cannot contain any pages which KSM could actually merge; even if MADV_UNMERGEABLE is applied to a range which was never MADV_MERGEABLE. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..530fed08de2c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/nommu-mmap.rst @@ -0,0 +1,283 @@ +============================= +No-MMU memory mapping support +============================= + +The kernel has li |