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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-03-06 10:31:36 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-03-06 10:31:36 -0800 |
| commit | 8dcd175bc3d50b78413c56d5b17d4bddd77412ef (patch) | |
| tree | 2c2fb25759b43f2e73830f07ef3b444d76825280 /include/linux/page-flags.h | |
| parent | afe6fe7036c6efdcb46cabc64bec9b6e4a005210 (diff) | |
| parent | fff04900ea79915939ef6a3aad78fca6511a3034 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few misc things
- ocfs2 updates
- most of MM
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (159 commits)
tools/testing/selftests/proc/proc-self-syscall.c: remove duplicate include
proc: more robust bulk read test
proc: test /proc/*/maps, smaps, smaps_rollup, statm
proc: use seq_puts() everywhere
proc: read kernel cpu stat pointer once
proc: remove unused argument in proc_pid_lookup()
fs/proc/thread_self.c: code cleanup for proc_setup_thread_self()
fs/proc/self.c: code cleanup for proc_setup_self()
proc: return exit code 4 for skipped tests
mm,mremap: bail out earlier in mremap_to under map pressure
mm/sparse: fix a bad comparison
mm/memory.c: do_fault: avoid usage of stale vm_area_struct
writeback: fix inode cgroup switching comment
mm/huge_memory.c: fix "orig_pud" set but not used
mm/hotplug: fix an imbalance with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
mm/memcontrol.c: fix bad line in comment
mm/cma.c: cma_declare_contiguous: correct err handling
mm/page_ext.c: fix an imbalance with kmemleak
mm/compaction: pass pgdat to too_many_isolated() instead of zone
mm: remove zone_lru_lock() function, access ->lru_lock directly
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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/page-flags.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/page-flags.h | 44 |
1 files changed, 38 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h index 39b4494e29f1..9f8712a4b1a5 100644 --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h @@ -17,8 +17,37 @@ /* * Various page->flags bits: * - * PG_reserved is set for special pages, which can never be swapped out. Some - * of them might not even exist... + * PG_reserved is set for special pages. The "struct page" of such a page + * should in general not be touched (e.g. set dirty) except by its owner. + * Pages marked as PG_reserved include: + * - Pages part of the kernel image (including vDSO) and similar (e.g. BIOS, + * initrd, HW tables) + * - Pages reserved or allocated early during boot (before the page allocator + * was initialized). This includes (depending on the architecture) the + * initial vmemmap, initial page tables, crashkernel, elfcorehdr, and much + * much more. Once (if ever) freed, PG_reserved is cleared and they will + * be given to the page allocator. + * - Pages falling into physical memory gaps - not IORESOURCE_SYSRAM. Trying + * to read/write these pages might end badly. Don't touch! + * - The zero page(s) + * - Pages not added to the page allocator when onlining a section because + * they were excluded via the online_page_callback() or because they are + * PG_hwpoison. + * - Pages allocated in the context of kexec/kdump (loaded kernel image, + * control pages, vmcoreinfo) + * - MMIO/DMA pages. Some architectures don't allow to ioremap pages that are + * not marked PG_reserved (as they might be in use by somebody else who does + * not respect the caching strategy). + * - Pages part of an offline section (struct pages of offline sections should + * not be trusted as they will be initialized when first onlined). + * - MCA pages on ia64 + * - Pages holding CPU notes for POWER Firmware Assisted Dump + * - Device memory (e.g. PMEM, DAX, HMM) + * Some PG_reserved pages will be excluded from the hibernation image. + * PG_reserved does in general not hinder anybody from dumping or swapping + * and is no longer required for remap_pfn_range(). ioremap might require it. + * Consequently, PG_reserved for a page mapped into user space can indicate + * the zero page, the vDSO, MMIO pages or device memory. * * The PG_private bitflag is set on pagecache pages if they contain filesystem * specific data (which is normally at page->private). It can be used by @@ -671,7 +700,7 @@ PAGEFLAG_FALSE(DoubleMap) /* Reserve 0x0000007f to catch underflows of page_mapcount */ #define PAGE_MAPCOUNT_RESERVE -128 #define PG_buddy 0x00000080 -#define PG_balloon 0x00000100 +#define PG_offline 0x00000100 #define PG_kmemcg 0x00000200 #define PG_table 0x00000400 @@ -706,10 +735,13 @@ static __always_inline void __ClearPage##uname(struct page *page) \ PAGE_TYPE_OPS(Buddy, buddy) /* - * PageBalloon() is true for pages that are on the balloon page list - * (see mm/balloon_compaction.c). + * PageOffline() indicates that the page is logically offline although the + * containing section is online. (e.g. inflated in a balloon driver or + * not onlined when onlining the section). + * The content of these pages is effectively stale. Such pages should not + * be touched (read/write/dump/save) except by their owner. */ -PAGE_TYPE_OPS(Balloon, balloon) +PAGE_TYPE_OPS(Offline, offline) /* * If kmemcg is enabled, the buddy allocator will set PageKmemcg() on |
