* [PATCH] docs: trace: fix an error in events-kmem.rst
@ 2025-08-11 11:25 Shi, Jiacheng
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From: Shi, Jiacheng @ 2025-08-11 11:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: corbet; +Cc: linux-doc
Commit 44042b449872 allows high-order pages to be stored on the per-CPU lists.
Update the documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Jiacheng Shi <billsjc@sjtu.edu.cn>
---
Documentation/trace/events-kmem.rst | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.rst b/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.rst
index 68fa75247488..1796530e2ab5 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/events-kmem.rst
@@ -78,9 +78,8 @@ contention on the lruvec->lru_lock.
mm_page_alloc_zone_locked page=%p pfn=%lu order=%u migratetype=%d cpu=%d percpu_refill=%d
mm_page_pcpu_drain page=%p pfn=%lu order=%d cpu=%d migratetype=%d
-In front of the page allocator is a per-cpu page allocator. It exists only
-for order-0 pages, reduces contention on the zone->lock and reduces the
-amount of writing on struct page.
+In front of the page allocator is a per-cpu page allocator. It reduces
+contention on the zone->lock and reduces the amount of writing on struct page.
When a per-CPU list is empty or pages of the wrong type are allocated,
the zone->lock will be taken once and the per-CPU list refilled. The event
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2.25.1
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