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@ 2025-09-21  0:58 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2025-09-21  0:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
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	oliver.sang, nphamcs, lorenzo.stoakes, kasong, hughd, hannes,
	david, bhe, baolin.wang, baohua, chrisl, akpm


The patch titled
     Subject: docs-mm-add-document-for-swap-table-fix
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     docs-mm-add-document-for-swap-table-fix.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/docs-mm-add-document-for-swap-table-fix.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Subject: docs-mm-add-document-for-swap-table-fix
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2025 17:11:03 -0700

- Move the swap table document to the mm main section. [SeongJae Park]

- Rewrite the swap table size sentence for easier to understand. [ Barry]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACePvbXjaUyzB_9RSSSgR6BNvz+L9anvn0vcNf_J0jD7-4Yy6Q@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 Documentation/mm/index.rst      |    2 +-
 Documentation/mm/swap-table.rst |    9 +++------
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/mm/index.rst~docs-mm-add-document-for-swap-table-fix
+++ a/Documentation/mm/index.rst
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ see the :doc:`admin guide <../admin-guid
    highmem
    page_reclaim
    swap
+   swap-table
    page_cache
    shmfs
    oom
@@ -57,7 +58,6 @@ documentation, or deleted if it has serv
    page_table_check
    remap_file_pages
    split_page_table_lock
-   swap-table
    transhuge
    unevictable-lru
    vmalloced-kernel-stacks
--- a/Documentation/mm/swap-table.rst~docs-mm-add-document-for-swap-table-fix
+++ a/Documentation/mm/swap-table.rst
@@ -50,12 +50,9 @@ Swap cache lookup within the cluster can
 
 We give such a per-cluster swap cache value array a name: the swap table.
 
-Each swap cluster contains 512 entries, so a swap table stores one cluster
-worth of swap cache values, which is exactly one page. This is not
-coincidental because the cluster size is determined by the huge page size.
-The swap table is holding an array of pointers. The pointer has the same
-size as the PTE. The size of the swap table should match to the second
-last level of the page table page, exactly one page.
+A swap table is an array of pointers. Each pointer is the same size as a
+PTE. The size of a swap table for one swap cluster typically matches a PTE
+page table, which is one page on modern 64-bit systems.
 
 With swap table, swap cache lookup can achieve great locality, simpler,
 and faster.
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from chrisl@kernel.org are

docs-mm-add-document-for-swap-table.patch
docs-mm-add-document-for-swap-table-fix.patch


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