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Now swap table is cluster based, which means free clusters can free its table since no one should modify it. There could be speculative readers, like swap cache look up, protect them by making them RCU protected. All swap table should be filled with null entries before free, so such readers will either see a NULL pointer or a null filled table being lazy freed. On allocation, allocate the table when a cluster is used by any order. This way, we can reduce the memory usage of large swap device significantly. This idea to dynamically release unused swap cluster data was initially suggested by Chris Li while proposing the cluster swap allocator and it suits the swap table idea very well. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250916160100.31545-15-ryncsn@gmail.com Co-developed-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com> Suggested-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com> Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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README
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.