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It looks like some callers expect a non-volatile object, that they do not want the contents of the pages lost if they happen to not be looking at it. The shrinker however sees that we mark the pages as DONTNEED and believes that it can freely reap them. However, since the huge object use plain pages, they cannot be swapped out as they have no backing storge, and the only way we can shrink them is by discarding the contents. In light of the callers wanting to keep the contents around, both IS_SHRINKABLE and marking the pages as volatile are incorrect. If we drop the IS_SHRINKABLE flag we avoid the immediate issue of the shrinker accidentally removing valuable content. We will have to remember that a huge object is not suitable for exercising the shrinker interaction -- although we can introduce a shrinkable one if we require. Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.auld@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200323130821.47914-1-matthew.auld@intel.com |
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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 Restructured Text 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.