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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-03-22 16:11:53 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-03-22 16:11:53 -0700 |
| commit | 3bf03b9a0839c9fb06927ae53ebd0f960b19d408 (patch) | |
| tree | 06114247eb7760edca7b57cc0108a351ffe1971b /Documentation/dev-tools | |
| parent | 3fe2f7446f1e029b220f7f650df6d138f91651f2 (diff) | |
| parent | 15423a52cc84e23bc11e4a903cd775adc7c6ab00 (diff) | |
| download | linux-3bf03b9a0839c9fb06927ae53ebd0f960b19d408.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton:
- A few misc subsystems: kthread, scripts, ntfs, ocfs2, block, and vfs
- Most the MM patches which precede the patches in Willy's tree: kasan,
pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, selftests, pagemap, mremap,
sparsemem, vmalloc, pagealloc, memory-failure, mlock, hugetlb,
userfaultfd, vmscan, compaction, mempolicy, oom-kill, migration, thp,
cma, autonuma, psi, ksm, page-poison, madvise, memory-hotplug, rmap,
zswap, uaccess, ioremap, highmem, cleanups, kfence, hmm, and damon.
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (227 commits)
mm/damon/sysfs: remove repeat container_of() in damon_sysfs_kdamond_release()
Docs/ABI/testing: add DAMON sysfs interface ABI document
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: document DAMON sysfs interface
selftests/damon: add a test for DAMON sysfs interface
mm/damon/sysfs: support DAMOS stats
mm/damon/sysfs: support DAMOS watermarks
mm/damon/sysfs: support schemes prioritization
mm/damon/sysfs: support DAMOS quotas
mm/damon/sysfs: support DAMON-based Operation Schemes
mm/damon/sysfs: support the physical address space monitoring
mm/damon/sysfs: link DAMON for virtual address spaces monitoring
mm/damon: implement a minimal stub for sysfs-based DAMON interface
mm/damon/core: add number of each enum type values
mm/damon/core: allow non-exclusive DAMON start/stop
Docs/damon: update outdated term 'regions update interval'
Docs/vm/damon/design: update DAMON-Idle Page Tracking interference handling
Docs/vm/damon: call low level monitoring primitives the operations
mm/damon: remove unnecessary CONFIG_DAMON option
mm/damon/paddr,vaddr: remove damon_{p,v}a_{target_valid,set_operations}()
mm/damon/dbgfs-test: fix is_target_id() change
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst | 12 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst index ac6b89d1a8c324..936f6aaa75c857 100644 --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kfence.rst @@ -41,6 +41,18 @@ guarded by KFENCE. The default is configurable via the Kconfig option ``CONFIG_KFENCE_SAMPLE_INTERVAL``. Setting ``kfence.sample_interval=0`` disables KFENCE. +The sample interval controls a timer that sets up KFENCE allocations. By +default, to keep the real sample interval predictable, the normal timer also +causes CPU wake-ups when the system is completely idle. This may be undesirable +on power-constrained systems. The boot parameter ``kfence.deferrable=1`` +instead switches to a "deferrable" timer which does not force CPU wake-ups on +idle systems, at the risk of unpredictable sample intervals. The default is +configurable via the Kconfig option ``CONFIG_KFENCE_DEFERRABLE``. + +.. warning:: + The KUnit test suite is very likely to fail when using a deferrable timer + since it currently causes very unpredictable sample intervals. + The KFENCE memory pool is of fixed size, and if the pool is exhausted, no further KFENCE allocations occur. With ``CONFIG_KFENCE_NUM_OBJECTS`` (default 255), the number of available guarded objects can be controlled. Each object |