From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 7/7] docs/core-api: mm-api: add section about GFP flags
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:26:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1532517970-16409-8-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1532517970-16409-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst b/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst
index 65a8ef09..1e8c011 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst
@@ -11,6 +11,28 @@ User Space Memory Access
.. kernel-doc:: arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c
:export:
+Memory Allocation Controls
+==========================
+
+Linux provides a variety of APIs for memory allocation from direct
+calls to page allocator through slab caches and vmalloc to allocators
+of compressed memory. Although these allocators have different
+semantics and are used in different circumstances, they all share the
+GFP (get free page) flags that control behavior of each allocation
+request.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/gfp.h
+ :doc: Page mobility and placement hints
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/gfp.h
+ :doc: Watermark modifiers
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/gfp.h
+ :doc: Reclaim modifiers
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/gfp.h
+ :doc: Common combinations
+
The Slab Cache
==============
--
2.7.4
prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-25 11:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-25 11:26 [PATCH 0/7] memory management documentation updates Mike Rapoport
2018-07-25 11:26 ` [PATCH 1/7] mm/util: make strndup_user description a kernel-doc comment Mike Rapoport
2018-07-25 11:26 ` [PATCH 2/7] mm/util: add kernel-doc for kvfree Mike Rapoport
2018-07-25 11:26 ` [PATCH 3/7] docs/core-api: kill trailing whitespace in kernel-api.rst Mike Rapoport
2018-07-25 11:26 ` [PATCH 4/7] docs/core-api: move *{str,mem}dup* to "String Manipulation" Mike Rapoport
2018-07-25 11:26 ` [PATCH 5/7] docs/core-api: split memory management API to a separate file Mike Rapoport
2018-07-25 12:05 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-07-25 13:30 ` Mike Rapoport
2018-07-25 11:26 ` [PATCH 6/7] docs/mm: make GFP flags descriptions usable as kernel-doc Mike Rapoport
2018-07-25 11:26 ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
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