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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index ec92120a7952..ddc5ccdd4cd1 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -834,6 +834,18 @@ dump out devices still on the deferred probe list after retrying. + dfltcc= [HW,S390] + Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } + on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on + level 1 and decompression (default) + off: No s390 zlib hardware support + def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate + only (compression on level 1) + inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate + only (decompression) + always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression + level always using hardware support (used for debugging) + dhash_entries= [KNL] Set number of hash buckets for dentry cache. diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/index.rst b/Documentation/core-api/index.rst index bc0c727d7fd8..a501dc1c90d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/core-api/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/core-api/index.rst @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Core utilities generic-radix-tree memory-allocation mm-api + pin_user_pages gfp_mask-from-fs-io timekeeping boot-time-mm diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..1d490155ecd7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/core-api/pin_user_pages.rst @@ -0,0 +1,232 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +==================================================== +pin_user_pages() and related calls +==================================================== + +.. contents:: :local: + +Overview +======== + +This document describes the following functions:: + + pin_user_pages() + pin_user_pages_fast() + pin_user_pages_remote() + +Basic description of FOLL_PIN +============================= + +FOLL_PIN and FOLL_LONGTERM are flags that can be passed to the get_user_pages*() +("gup") family of functions. FOLL_PIN has significant interactions and +interdependencies with FOLL_LONGTERM, so both are covered here. + +FOLL_PIN is internal to gup, meaning |