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Petr Tesarik def9b71ee6 include/linux/mmzone.h: fix explanation of lower bits in the SPARSEMEM mem_map pointer
The comment is confusing.  On the one hand, it refers to 32-bit
alignment (struct page alignment on 32-bit platforms), but this would
only guarantee that the 2 lowest bits must be zero.  On the other hand,
it claims that at least 3 bits are available, and 3 bits are actually
used.

This is not broken, because there is a stronger alignment guarantee,
just less obvious.  Let's fix the comment to make it clear how many bits
are available and why.

Although memmap arrays are allocated in various places, the resulting
pointer is encoded eventually, so I am adding a BUG_ON() here to enforce
at runtime that all expected bits are indeed available.

I have also added a BUILD_BUG_ON to check that PFN_SECTION_SHIFT is
sufficient, because this part of the calculation can be easily checked
at build time.

[ptesarik@suse.com: v2]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180125100516.589ea6af@ezekiel.suse.cz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180119080908.3a662e6f@ezekiel.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kemi Wang <kemi.wang@intel.com>
Cc: YASUAKI ISHIMATSU <yasu.isimatu@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-01-31 17:18:39 -08:00
arch mm/thp: remove pmd_huge_split_prepare() 2018-01-31 17:18:38 -08:00
block Merge branch 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-30 17:58:07 -08:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-30 17:58:07 -08:00
Documentation mm, hugetlb: remove hugepages_treat_as_movable sysctl 2018-01-31 17:18:37 -08:00
drivers mm, mmu_notifier: annotate mmu notifiers with blockable invalidate callbacks 2018-01-31 17:18:38 -08:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs userfaultfd: convert to use anon_inode_getfd() 2018-01-31 17:18:39 -08:00
include include/linux/mmzone.h: fix explanation of lower bits in the SPARSEMEM mem_map pointer 2018-01-31 17:18:39 -08:00
init init_task out-of-lining 2018-01-29 09:08:34 -08:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.mqueue' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-30 18:32:21 -08:00
kernel mm, hugetlb: remove hugepages_treat_as_movable sysctl 2018-01-31 17:18:37 -08:00
lib First merge window pull request for 4.16 2018-01-31 12:05:10 -08:00
mm include/linux/mmzone.h: fix explanation of lower bits in the SPARSEMEM mem_map pointer 2018-01-31 17:18:39 -08:00
net First merge window pull request for 4.16 2018-01-31 12:05:10 -08:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2017-12-03 13:08:30 -05:00
scripts scripts/tags.sh: change find_other_sources() for include directories 2018-01-31 17:18:34 -08:00
security Merge branch 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-30 17:58:07 -08:00
sound Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-01-31 09:25:20 -08:00
tools memfd-test: run fuse test on hugetlb backend memory 2018-01-31 17:18:39 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt mm, mmu_notifier: annotate mmu notifiers with blockable invalidate callbacks 2018-01-31 17:18:38 -08:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild misc updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:51:33 -08:00
.mailmap mailmap: update Mark Yao's email address 2018-01-04 16:45:09 -08:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS First merge window pull request for 4.16 2018-01-31 12:05:10 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.15 2018-01-28 13:20:33 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

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.