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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst | 2 |
4 files changed, 4 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst index cd727cfc1b04..4b14d8b50e9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst @@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ Memory Management ================= Linux memory management subsystem is responsible, as the name implies, -for managing the memory in the system. This includes implemnetation of +for managing the memory in the system. This includes implementation of virtual memory and demand paging, memory allocation both for kernel -internal structures and user space programms, mapping of files into +internal structures and user space programs, mapping of files into processes address space and many other cool things. Linux memory management is a complex system with many configurable diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst index 86f2a3c4b638..c2f826409bf0 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numaperf.rst @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ memory node's access class 0 initiators as follows:: /sys/devices/system/node/nodeY/access0/initiators/ These attributes apply only when accessed from nodes that have the -are linked under the this access's inititiators. +are linked under the this access's initiators. The performance characteristics the kernel provides for the local initiators are exported are as follows:: diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst index b2acd0d395ca..3b8a336511a4 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst @@ -401,21 +401,6 @@ compact_fail is incremented if the system tries to compact memory but failed. -compact_pages_moved - is incremented each time a page is moved. If - this value is increasing rapidly, it implies that the system - is copying a lot of data to satisfy the huge page allocation. - It is possible that the cost of copying exceeds any savings - from reduced TLB misses. - -compact_pagemigrate_failed - is incremented when the underlying mechanism - for moving a page failed. - -compact_blocks_moved - is incremented each time memory compaction examines - a huge page aligned range of pages. - It is possible to establish how long the stalls were using the function tracer to record how long was spent in __alloc_pages_nodemask and using the mm_page_alloc tracepoint to identify which allocations were diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst index 1dc2d5f823b4..65eefa66c0ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/userfaultfd.rst @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Notes: you must provide some kind of page in your thread after reading from the uffd. You must provide either ``UFFDIO_COPY`` or ``UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE``. The normal behavior of the OS automatically providing a zero page on - an annonymous mmaping is not in place. + an anonymous mmaping is not in place. - None of the page-delivering ioctls default to the range that you registered with. You must fill in all fields for the appropriate |