Commit 3ecf53e4 authored by Mike Rapoport's avatar Mike Rapoport Committed by Jonathan Corbet

docs/vm: move numa_memory_policy.rst to Documentation/admin-guide/mm

The document describes userspace API and as such it belongs to
Documentation/admin-guide/mm
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 1174bd84
......@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ 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
:ref:`Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.rst <numa_memory_policy>`],
:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst <numa_memory_policy>`],
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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......@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ the Linux memory management.
hugetlbpage
idle_page_tracking
ksm
numa_memory_policy
pagemap
soft-dirty
userfaultfd
......@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ address policy mapping details
Where:
"address" is the starting address for the mapping;
"policy" reports the NUMA memory policy set for the mapping (see vm/numa_memory_policy.txt);
"policy" reports the NUMA memory policy set for the mapping (see Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst);
"mapping details" summarizes mapping data such as mapping type, page usage counters,
node locality page counters (N0 == node0, N1 == node1, ...) and the kernel page
size, in KB, that is backing the mapping up.
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......@@ -105,8 +105,9 @@ 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.rst for a list of all available
memory allocation policy mode flags and their effect on memory policy.
See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/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
=relative is equivalent to MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES
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......@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@ mmu_notifier.rst
- a note about clearing pte/pmd and mmu notifications
numa.rst
- information about NUMA specific code in the Linux vm.
numa_memory_policy.rst
- documentation of concepts and APIs of the 2.6 memory policy support.
overcommit-accounting.rst
- description of the Linux kernels overcommit handling modes.
page_frags.rst
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......@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ various features of the Linux memory management
:maxdepth: 1
ksm
numa_memory_policy
transhuge
swap_numa
zswap
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......@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ to improve NUMA locality using various CPU affinity command line interfaces,
such as taskset(1) and numactl(1), and program interfaces such as
sched_setaffinity(2). Further, one can modify the kernel's default local
allocation behavior using Linux NUMA memory policy.
[see Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.rst.]
[see Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst.]
System administrators can restrict the CPUs and nodes' memories that a non-
privileged user can specify in the scheduling or NUMA commands and functions
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