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/Documentation/core-api/
Dmemory-allocation.rst4 Memory Allocation Guide
7 Linux provides a variety of APIs for memory allocation. You can
14 Most of the memory allocation APIs use GFP flags to express how that
16 pages", the underlying memory allocation function.
18 Diversity of the allocation APIs combined with the numerous GFP flags
26 Of course there are cases when other allocation APIs and different GFP
45 * If the allocation is performed from an atomic context, e.g interrupt
48 ``GFP_NOWAIT`` allocation is likely to fail. Users of this flag need
52 will be stressed unless allocation succeeds, you may use ``GFP_ATOMIC``.
67 example may be a hardware allocation that maps data directly into
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Dgenalloc.rst4 There are a number of memory-allocation subsystems in the kernel, each
32 which NUMA node should be used for the allocation of the housekeeping
87 how the allocation functions choose which specific piece of memory to
107 - gen_pool_first_fit_align forces the allocation to have a specific
110 - gen_pool_first_fit_order_align aligns the allocation to the order of the
111 size. A 60-byte allocation will thus be 64-byte aligned, for example.
117 If the indicated memory is not available the allocation fails.
Didr.rst4 ID Allocation
18 only ID allocation, and as a result is much more memory-efficient.
36 ID by passing a ``NULL`` pointer to the allocation function; initialise the
67 idr_preload_end() after the allocation.
Dswiotlb.rst20 if bounce buffering is necessary. If so, the DMA layer manages the allocation,
106 A single allocation from swiotlb is limited to IO_TLB_SIZE * IO_TLB_SEGSIZE
119 of the bounce buffer that slightly reduces the maximum size of an allocation.
128 parameter specifies the allocation of bounce buffer space must start at a
174 trying an allocation, so contention may occur if swiotlb is relatively busy
175 overall. But an allocation request does not fail unless all areas do not have
186 Because a bounce buffer allocation can't cross a slot set boundary, eliminating
190 change in the future, the initial pool allocation might need to be done with
196 the amount of memory available for allocation as bounce buffers. If a bounce
200 because the memory allocation may block, and as noted above, swiotlb requests
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Dboot-time-mm.rst16 functions and macros for memory allocations. The allocation request
19 when an allocation fails and those that don't.
Ddma-attributes.rst98 optimize allocation (avoid coming up with large pages) instead of
110 This tells the DMA-mapping subsystem to suppress allocation failure reports
113 On some architectures allocation failures are reported with error messages
120 where allocation failures are not a problem, and shouldn't bother the logs.
/Documentation/mm/
Dallocation-profiling.rst4 MEMORY ALLOCATION PROFILING
23 When set to "never", memory allocation profiling overhead is minimized and it
30 If compression fails, a warning is issued and memory allocation profiling gets
57 Memory allocation profiling builds off of code tagging, which is a library for
62 To add accounting for an allocation call, we replace it with a macro
66 - calls the real allocation function
71 do not properly belong to the outer allocation context and should be counted
75 Thus, proper usage requires determining which function in an allocation call
82 - switch its allocation call to the _noprof() version, e.g. kmalloc_noprof()
98 - Hook your data structure's init function, like any other allocation function.
Dpage_frags.rst11 simple allocation framework for page fragments. This is used by the
17 cache is needed. This provides a central point for the fragment allocation
20 which can be expensive at allocation time. However due to the nature of
23 to be disabled when executing the fragment allocation.
26 allocation. The netdev_alloc_cache is used by callers making use of the
41 avoid calling get_page per allocation.
Dbalance.rst12 be that the caller is willing to fail the allocation without incurring the
14 allocation requests that have order-0 fallback options. In such cases,
17 __GFP_IO allocation requests are made to prevent file system deadlocks.
19 In the absence of non sleepable allocation requests, it seems detrimental
46 with a slight change in the allocation routine, it is possible to reduce
74 probably because all allocation requests are coming from intr context
88 watermark[WMARK_HIGH]. When low_on_memory is set, page allocation requests will
Dsplit_page_table_lock.rst34 PTE with pointer to its lock, or returns NULL if allocation failed;
66 must be called on PTE table allocation / freeing.
69 allocation: slab uses page->slab_cache for its pages.
76 allocation and pagetable_pmd_dtor() on freeing.
78 Allocation usually happens in pmd_alloc_one(), freeing in pmd_free() and
79 pmd_free_tlb(), but make sure you cover all PMD table allocation / freeing
Dnuma.rst75 selected zone/node cannot satisfy the allocation request. This situation,
87 By default, Linux will attempt to satisfy memory allocation requests from the
90 for the node where the request originates. This is called "local allocation."
95 Local allocation will tend to keep subsequent access to the allocated memory
110 allocation behavior using Linux NUMA memory policy. [see
127 Some kernel allocations do not want or cannot tolerate this allocation fallback
132 A typical model for making such an allocation is to obtain the node id of the
135 the node id returned. When such an allocation fails, the requesting subsystem
138 itself on allocation failure. The kernel profiling subsystem is an example of
Dpage_owner.rst10 When allocation happens, information about allocation such as call stack
15 Although we already have tracepoint for tracing page allocation/free,
30 allocation and free operation.
38 the page allocator hotpath and if not enabled, then allocation is done
40 not affect to allocation performance, especially if the static keys jump
155 -a Sort by memory allocation time.
221 st stacktrace stack trace of the page allocation
234 st stacktrace stack trace of the page allocation
Dvmalloced-kernel-stacks.rst83 Allocation chapter
105 Thread stack allocation is initiated from clone(), fork(), vfork(),
131 Testing VMAP allocation with guard pages
147 high-order stack allocation, at least when the cache hits.
Dpage_allocation.rst4 Page Allocation
Dslab.rst4 Slab Allocation
/Documentation/trace/
Devents-kmem.rst5 The kmem tracing system captures events related to object and page allocation
8 - Slab allocation of small objects of unknown type (kmalloc)
9 - Slab allocation of small objects of known type
10 - Page allocation
17 1. Slab allocation of small objects of unknown type
27 internal fragmented as a result of the allocation pattern. By correlating
29 the allocation sites were.
32 2. Slab allocation of small objects of known type
45 3. Page allocation
54 These four events deal with page allocation and freeing. mm_page_alloc is
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/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/
Dbigalloc.rst15 use clustered allocation, so that each bit in the ext4 block allocation
19 This means that each bit in the block allocation bitmap now addresses
20 256 4k blocks. This shrinks the total size of the block allocation
29 128MiB); however, the minimum allocation unit becomes a cluster, not a
/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/
Dnuma_memory_policy.rst38 use "local allocation" described below. However, during boot
82 A VMA policy will govern the allocation of pages that back
138 support allocation at fault time--a.k.a lazy allocation--so hugetlbfs
140 Although hugetlbfs segments now support lazy allocation, their support
197 closest to the node where the allocation takes place.
200 This mode specifies that the allocation should be attempted
202 allocation fails, the kernel will search other nodes, in order
209 and the policy is interpreted as local allocation. "Local"
210 allocation policy can be viewed as a Preferred policy that
211 starts at the node containing the cpu where the allocation
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Dtranshuge.rst75 allocation failures to be noticeable from userland. It allows paging
145 given allocation.
153 guaranteed, but it may be more likely in case the allocation is for a
166 allocation failure and directly reclaim pages and compact
200 allocation library) may want to know the size (in bytes) of a
249 allocation failure to throttle the next allocation attempt::
332 You can control hugepage allocation policy in tmpfs with mount option
354 There's also sysfs knob to control hugepage allocation policy for internal
369 control mTHP allocation:
441 allocation was successful.
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/Documentation/admin-guide/
Dnumastat.rst12 the preferred node and numa_miss on the node where allocation succeeded.
17 incremented on allocation from a node by CPU on the same node. other_node is
18 similar to numa_miss and is incremented on the node where allocation succeeds
53 preferred node. As a result, such allocation will not increase the numa_foreign
Dext4.rst79 * improved file allocation (multi-block alloc)
89 * inode allocation using large virtual block groups via flex_bg
90 * delayed allocation
174 main file system. Enabling this mode will disable delayed allocation
194 delayed allocation even older data can be lost on power failure since
275 Number of filesystem blocks that mballoc will try to use for allocation
280 Defer block allocation until just before ext4 writes out the block(s)
281 in question. This allows ext4 to better allocation decisions more
285 Disable delayed allocation. Blocks are allocated when the data is
324 and force that any delayed allocation blocks are allocated such that at
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/Documentation/userspace-api/
Ddma-buf-alloc-exchange.rst180 described as having a height of 1080, with the memory allocation for each buffer
228 Allocation chapter
233 buffer-allocation interface available at either kernel or userspace level, the
234 client makes an arbitrary choice of allocation interface such as Vulkan, GBM, or
237 Each allocation request must take, at a minimum: the pixel format, a list of
239 this set of properties in different ways, such as allowing allocation in more
244 allocation, any padding required, and further properties of the underlying
250 After allocation, the client must query the allocator to determine the actual
272 memory. For this reason, each import and allocation API must provide a separate
314 In the latter case, the allocation is as discussed above, being provided with a
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/Documentation/arch/arm64/
Dmemory-tagging-extension.rst19 allocation tag for each 16-byte granule in the physical address space.
23 the logical tag against the allocation tag and potentially raise an
36 To access the allocation tags, a user process must enable the Tagged
40 ``PROT_MTE`` - Pages allow access to the MTE allocation tags.
42 The allocation tag is set to 0 when such pages are first mapped in the
44 supported and the allocation tags can be shared between processes.
55 ``MADV_FREE`` may have the allocation tags cleared (set to 0) at any
62 the logical and allocation tags occurs on access, there are three
230 The allocation tags for user memory mapped with ``PROT_MTE`` are dumped
303 * Set the allocation tag on the destination address.
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/Documentation/driver-api/
Dsm501.rst41 The centralised memory allocation allows the driver to ensure that the
42 maximum possible resource allocation can be made to the video subsystem
45 The primary issue with memory allocation is that of moving the video
/Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/
D5level-paging.rst45 But userspace can ask for allocation from full address space by
53 A high hint address would only affect the allocation in question, but not
58 to allocation from 47-bit address space.

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