mm-clarify-folio_likely_mapped_shared-documentation-for-ksm-folios.patch removed from -mm tree
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: clarify folio_likely_mapped_shared() documentation for KSM folios
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-clarify-folio_likely_mapped_shared-documentation-for-ksm-folios.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Subject: mm: clarify folio_likely_mapped_shared() documentation for KSM folios
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:07:58 +0200
For KSM folios, the function actually does what it is supposed to do: even having multiple mappings inside the same MM is considered "sharing", as there is no real relationship between these KSM page mappings -- in contrast to mapping the same file range twice and having the same pagecache page mapped twice.
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include/linux/mm.h | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
include/linux/mm.h renamed from include/linux/mm.h~mm-clarify-folio_likely_mapped_shared-documentation-for-ksm-folios +8 -6
@@ -2132,14 +2132,19 @@ static inline size_t folio_size(const st* MM ("mapped shared"), or if the folio is only mapped into a single MM * ("mapped exclusively"). * +* For KSM folios, this function also returns "mapped shared" when a folio is +* mapped multiple times into the same MM, because the individual page mappings +* are independent. +* * As precise information is not easily available for all folios, this function * estimates the number of MMs ("sharers") that are currently mapping a folio * using the number of times the first page of the folio is currently mapped * into page tables. * -* For small anonymous folios (except KSM folios) and anonymous hugetlb folios, -* the return value will be exactly correct, because they can only be mapped -* at most once into an MM, and they cannot be partially mapped. +* For small anonymous folios and anonymous hugetlb folios, the return +* value will be exactly correct: non-KSM folios can only be mapped at most once +* into an MM, and they cannot be partially mapped. KSM folios are +* considered shared even if mapped multiple times into the same MM. * * For other folios, the result can be fuzzy: * #. For partially-mappable large folios (THP), the return value can wrongly
@@ -2148,9 +2153,6 @@ static inline size_t folio_size(const st* #. For pagecache folios (including hugetlb), the return value can wrongly * indicate "mapped shared" (false positive) when two VMAs in the same MM * cover the same file range. -* #. For (small) KSM folios, the return value can wrongly indicate "mapped -* shared" (false positive), when the folio is mapped multiple times into -* the same MM. * * Further, this function only considers current page table mappings that * are tracked using the folio mapcount(s).
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are
mm-rmap-use-folio-_mapcount-for-small-folios.patch mm-always-inline-_compound_head-with-config_hugetlb_page_optimize_vmemmap=y.patch selftests-mm-fix-charge_reserved_hugetlbsh-test.patch