Re: [PATCH] Link the memory allocation guide from the MM docs

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 08:00:49AM -0800, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > I just went looking for the memory allocation guide in the MM docs instead > of in the core API. For the benefit of the next person who makes that > mistake, link to it from the MM docs. > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox

Re: [PATCH v2] Document /proc/pid PID reuse behavior

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 2:54 AM, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Mon 2018-11-05 13:22:05, Daniel Colascione wrote: >> State explicitly that holding a /proc/pid file descriptor open does >> not reserve the PID. Also note that in the event of PID reuse, these >> open file descriptors refer to the old,

Re: [PATCH v1 2/8] mm: convert PG_balloon to PG_offline

> > diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h > index 50ce1bddaf56..f91da3d0a67e 100644 > --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h > +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h > @@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ PAGEFLAG_FALSE(DoubleMap) > #define PAGE_TYPE_BASE 0xf000 > /* Reserve

[PATCH] Link the memory allocation guide from the MM docs

I just went looking for the memory allocation guide in the MM docs instead of in the core API. For the benefit of the next person who makes that mistake, link to it from the MM docs. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/memory-allocation.rst