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The maintenance of the folio->_deferred_list is intricate because it's
reused in a local list.
Here are some peculiarities:
1) When a folio is removed from its split queue and added to a local
on-stack list in deferred_split_scan(), the ->split_queue_len isn't
updated, leading to an inconsistency between it and the actual
number of folios in the split queue.
2) When the folio is split via split_folio() later, it's removed from
the local list while holding the split queue lock. At this time,
the lock is not needed as it is not protecting anything.
3) To handle the race condition with a third-party freeing or migrating
the preceding folio, we must ensure there's always one safe (with
raised refcount) folio before by delaying its folio_put(). More
details can be found in commit
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.