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Joshua Hahn fc4b909c36 mm/page_alloc: batch page freeing in decay_pcp_high
It is possible for pcp->count - pcp->high to exceed pcp->batch by a lot. 
When this happens, we should perform batching to ensure that
free_pcppages_bulk isn't called with too many pages to free at once and
starve out other threads that need the pcp or zone lock.

Since we are still only freeing the difference between the initial
pcp->count and pcp->high values, there should be no change to how many
pages are freed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251014145011.3427205-3-joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Co-developed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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arch drivers/base/node: fold register_node() into register_one_node() 2025-11-16 17:28:02 -08:00
block block-6.18-20251031 2025-10-31 12:57:19 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto This push contains the following changes: 2025-10-10 08:56:16 -07:00
Documentation mm/page_owner: update Documentation with 'show_handles' and 'show_stacks_handles' 2025-11-16 17:27:59 -08:00
drivers drivers/base/node: fold unregister_node() into unregister_one_node() 2025-11-16 17:28:03 -08:00
fs mm: consistently use current->mm in mm_get_unmapped_area() 2025-11-16 17:27:57 -08:00
include mm/page_alloc/vmstat: simplify refresh_cpu_vm_stats change detection 2025-11-16 17:28:04 -08:00
init printk changes for 6.18 2025-10-04 11:13:11 -07:00
io_uring mm: consistently use current->mm in mm_get_unmapped_area() 2025-11-16 17:27:57 -08:00
ipc namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
kernel mm: consistently use current->mm in mm_get_unmapped_area() 2025-11-16 17:27:57 -08:00
lib lib/test_vmalloc: remove xfail condition check 2025-11-16 17:27:53 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm mm/page_alloc: batch page freeing in decay_pcp_high 2025-11-16 17:28:04 -08:00
net Including fixes from bluetooth and wireless. 2025-11-06 08:52:30 -08:00
rust rust: kbuild: workaround rustdoc doctests modifier bug 2025-11-04 00:00:06 +01:00
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virt KVM x86 fixes for 6.18: 2025-10-18 10:25:43 +02:00
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README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

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.