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author | Mike Rapoport <[email protected]> | 2020-06-03 15:58:22 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2020-06-03 20:09:44 -0700 |
commit | 237e506cd5af254fbc3be560d57c29163133aaf6 (patch) | |
tree | 86a36cd83f523a4177f413269cbd755de4f6fdeb | |
parent | 8a1b25fe3ce49f7c0ad562fa294ac7f93731bd3a (diff) |
docs/vm: update memory-models documentation
To reflect the updates to free_area_init() family of functions.
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Hoan Tran <[email protected]> [arm64]
Cc: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Cain <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Cc: Greentime Hu <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <[email protected]>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <[email protected]>
Cc: Guo Ren <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Salter <[email protected]>
Cc: Matt Turner <[email protected]>
Cc: Max Filippov <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Cc: Nick Hu <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <[email protected]>
Cc: Rich Felker <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Stafford Horne <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst b/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst index 58a12376b7df..91228044ed16 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst +++ b/Documentation/vm/memory-model.rst @@ -46,11 +46,10 @@ maps the entire physical memory. For most architectures, the holes have entries in the `mem_map` array. The `struct page` objects corresponding to the holes are never fully initialized. -To allocate the `mem_map` array, architecture specific setup code -should call :c:func:`free_area_init_node` function or its convenience -wrapper :c:func:`free_area_init`. Yet, the mappings array is not -usable until the call to :c:func:`memblock_free_all` that hands all -the memory to the page allocator. +To allocate the `mem_map` array, architecture specific setup code should +call :c:func:`free_area_init` function. Yet, the mappings array is not +usable until the call to :c:func:`memblock_free_all` that hands all the +memory to the page allocator. If an architecture enables `CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL` option, it may free parts of the `mem_map` array that do not cover the |