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docs/vm: rename documentation files to .rst


Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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......@@ -90,4 +90,4 @@ Date: December 2009
Contact: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Description:
The node's huge page size control/query attributes.
See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
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See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst
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......@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ Description:
free_hugepages
surplus_hugepages
resv_hugepages
See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt for details.
See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst for details.
......@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Description: Kernel Samepage Merging daemon sysfs interface
sleep_millisecs: how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between
scans.
See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information.
See Documentation/vm/ksm.rst for more information.
What: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes
Date: January 2013
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......@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Description:
The alloc_calls file is read-only and lists the kernel code
locations from which allocations for this cache were performed.
The alloc_calls file only contains information if debugging is
enabled for that cache (see Documentation/vm/slub.txt).
enabled for that cache (see Documentation/vm/slub.rst).
What: /sys/kernel/slab/cache/alloc_fastpath
Date: February 2008
......@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ Contact: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Description:
The free_calls file is read-only and lists the locations of
object frees if slab debugging is enabled (see
Documentation/vm/slub.txt).
Documentation/vm/slub.rst).
What: /sys/kernel/slab/cache/free_fastpath
Date: February 2008
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......@@ -3887,7 +3887,7 @@
cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
own.
For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
slab_max_order= [MM, SLAB]
Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
......@@ -3901,7 +3901,7 @@
slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
last alloc / free. For more information see
Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
slub_memcg_sysfs= [MM, SLUB]
Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
......@@ -3915,7 +3915,7 @@
Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
fragmentation. For more information see
Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
slub_min_objects= [MM, SLUB]
The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
......@@ -3924,12 +3924,12 @@
the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
slub_min_order= [MM, SLUB]
Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
lower than slub_max_order.
For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
slub_nomerge [MM, SLUB]
Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
......@@ -4285,7 +4285,7 @@
Format: [always|madvise|never]
Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
with respect to transparent hugepages.
See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
See Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst for more details.
tsc= Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
Format: <string>
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......@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ A typical out of bounds access report looks like this::
The header of the report discribe what kind of bug happened and what kind of
access caused it. It's followed by the description of the accessed slub object
(see 'SLUB Debug output' section in Documentation/vm/slub.txt for details) and
(see 'SLUB Debug output' section in Documentation/vm/slub.rst for details) and
the description of the accessed memory page.
In the last section the report shows memory state around the accessed address.
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......@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ guarantees:
The /proc/PID/clear_refs is used to reset the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG
bits on both physical and virtual pages associated with a process, and the
soft-dirty bit on pte (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for details).
soft-dirty bit on pte (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.rst for details).
To clear the bits for all the pages associated with the process
> echo 1 > /proc/PID/clear_refs
......@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ Any other value written to /proc/PID/clear_refs will have no effect.
The /proc/pid/pagemap gives the PFN, which can be used to find the pageflags
using /proc/kpageflags and number of times a page is mapped using
/proc/kpagecount. For detailed explanation, see Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt.
/proc/kpagecount. For detailed explanation, see Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst.
The /proc/pid/numa_maps is an extension based on maps, showing the memory
locality and binding policy, as well as the memory usage (in pages) of
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......@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ policy for the file will revert to "default" policy.
NUMA memory allocation policies have optional flags that can be used in
conjunction with their modes. These optional flags can be specified
when tmpfs is mounted by appending them to the mode before the NodeList.
See Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt for a list of all available
See Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.rst for a list of all available
memory allocation policy mode flags and their effect on memory policy.
=static is equivalent to MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
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......@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ nr_hugepages
Change the minimum size of the hugepage pool.
See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst
==============================================================
......@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ nr_overcommit_hugepages
Change the maximum size of the hugepage pool. The maximum is
nr_hugepages + nr_overcommit_hugepages.
See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst
==============================================================
......@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ and don't use much of it.
The default value is 0.
See Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting and
See Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.rst and
mm/mmap.c::__vm_enough_memory() for more information.
==============================================================
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00-INDEX
- this file.
active_mm.txt
active_mm.rst
- An explanation from Linus about tsk->active_mm vs tsk->mm.
balance
balance.rst
- various information on memory balancing.
cleancache.txt
cleancache.rst
- Intro to cleancache and page-granularity victim cache.
frontswap.txt
frontswap.rst
- Outline frontswap, part of the transcendent memory frontend.
highmem.txt
highmem.rst
- Outline of highmem and common issues.
hmm.txt
hmm.rst
- Documentation of heterogeneous memory management
hugetlbpage.txt
hugetlbpage.rst
- a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in the Linux kernel.
hugetlbfs_reserv.txt
hugetlbfs_reserv.rst
- A brief overview of hugetlbfs reservation design/implementation.
hwpoison.txt
hwpoison.rst
- explains what hwpoison is
idle_page_tracking.txt
idle_page_tracking.rst
- description of the idle page tracking feature.
ksm.txt
ksm.rst
- how to use the Kernel Samepage Merging feature.
mmu_notifier.txt
mmu_notifier.rst
- a note about clearing pte/pmd and mmu notifications
numa
numa.rst
- information about NUMA specific code in the Linux vm.
numa_memory_policy.txt
numa_memory_policy.rst
- documentation of concepts and APIs of the 2.6 memory policy support.
overcommit-accounting
overcommit-accounting.rst
- description of the Linux kernels overcommit handling modes.
page_frags
page_frags.rst
- description of page fragments allocator
page_migration
page_migration.rst
- description of page migration in NUMA systems.
pagemap.txt
pagemap.rst
- pagemap, from the userspace perspective
page_owner.txt
page_owner.rst
- tracking about who allocated each page
remap_file_pages.txt
remap_file_pages.rst
- a note about remap_file_pages() system call
slub.txt
slub.rst
- a short users guide for SLUB.
soft-dirty.txt
soft-dirty.rst
- short explanation for soft-dirty PTEs
split_page_table_lock
split_page_table_lock.rst
- Separate per-table lock to improve scalability of the old page_table_lock.
swap_numa.txt
swap_numa.rst
- automatic binding of swap device to numa node
transhuge.txt
transhuge.rst
- Transparent Hugepage Support, alternative way of using hugepages.
unevictable-lru.txt
unevictable-lru.rst
- Unevictable LRU infrastructure
userfaultfd.txt
userfaultfd.rst
- description of userfaultfd system call
z3fold.txt
- outline of z3fold allocator for storing compressed pages
zsmalloc.txt
zsmalloc.rst
- outline of zsmalloc allocator for storing compressed pages
zswap.txt
zswap.rst
- Intro to compressed cache for swap pages
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......@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ When adjusting the persistent hugepage count via ``nr_hugepages_mempolicy``, any
memory policy mode--bind, preferred, local or interleave--may be used. The
resulting effect on persistent huge page allocation is as follows:
#. Regardless of mempolicy mode [see Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt],
#. Regardless of mempolicy mode [see Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.rst],
persistent huge pages will be distributed across the node or nodes
specified in the mempolicy as if "interleave" had been specified.
However, if a node in the policy does not contain sufficient contiguous
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......@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Testing
value). This allows stress testing of many kinds of
pages. The page_flags are the same as in /proc/kpageflags. The
flag bits are defined in include/linux/kernel-page-flags.h and
documented in Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
documented in Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst
* Architecture specific MCE injector
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......@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ workload one should:
are not reclaimable, he or she can filter them out using
``/proc/kpageflags``.
See Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt for more information about
See Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst for more information about
``/proc/pid/pagemap``, ``/proc/kpageflags``, and ``/proc/kpagecgroup``.
.. _impl_details:
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