Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few random little subsystems

 - almost all of the MM patches which are staged ahead of linux-next
   material. I'll trickle to post-linux-next work in as the dependents
   get merged up.

Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, kbuild, ide, ntfs,
ocfs2, arch, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, dax, debug, pagecache,
gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, hmm, vmalloc, documentation,
kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, vmscan, z3fold, compaction,
oom-kill, migration, cma, page-poison, userfaultfd, zswap, zsmalloc,
uaccess, zram, and cleanups).

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (200 commits)
  mm: cleanup kstrto*() usage
  mm: fix fall-through warnings for Clang
  mm: slub: convert sysfs sprintf family to sysfs_emit/sysfs_emit_at
  mm: shmem: convert shmem_enabled_show to use sysfs_emit_at
  mm:backing-dev: use sysfs_emit in macro defining functions
  mm: huge_memory: convert remaining use of sprintf to sysfs_emit and neatening
  mm: use sysfs_emit for struct kobject * uses
  mm: fix kernel-doc markups
  zram: break the strict dependency from lzo
  zram: add stat to gather incompressible pages since zram set up
  zram: support page writeback
  mm/process_vm_access: remove redundant initialization of iov_r
  mm/zsmalloc.c: rework the list_add code in insert_zspage()
  mm/zswap: move to use crypto_acomp API for hardware acceleration
  mm/zswap: fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
  mm/zswap: make struct kernel_param_ops definitions const
  userfaultfd/selftests: hint the test runner on required privilege
  userfaultfd/selftests: fix retval check for userfaultfd_open()
  userfaultfd/selftests: always dump something in modes
  userfaultfd: selftests: make __{s,u}64 format specifiers portable
  ...
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Linus Torvalds 2020-12-15 12:53:37 -08:00
commit ac73e3dc8a
216 changed files with 4330 additions and 2881 deletions

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@ -147,6 +147,10 @@ The address of a chunk allocated with `kmalloc` is aligned to at least
ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN bytes. For sizes which are a power of two, the
alignment is also guaranteed to be at least the respective size.
Chunks allocated with kmalloc() can be resized with krealloc(). Similarly
to kmalloc_array(): a helper for resizing arrays is provided in the form of
krealloc_array().
For large allocations you can use vmalloc() and vzalloc(), or directly
request pages from the page allocator. The memory allocated by `vmalloc`
and related functions is not physically contiguous.

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@ -221,12 +221,12 @@ Unit testing
============
This file::
tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_benchmark.c
tools/testing/selftests/vm/gup_test.c
has the following new calls to exercise the new pin*() wrapper functions:
* PIN_FAST_BENCHMARK (./gup_benchmark -a)
* PIN_BENCHMARK (./gup_benchmark -b)
* PIN_FAST_BENCHMARK (./gup_test -a)
* PIN_BASIC_TEST (./gup_test -b)
You can monitor how many total dma-pinned pages have been acquired and released
since the system was booted, via two new /proc/vmstat entries: ::