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  Linux 4.14-rc5
  x86/microcode: Do the family check first
  locking/lockdep: Disable cross-release features for now
  x86/mm: Flush more aggressively in lazy TLB mode
  mm, swap: use page-cluster as max window of VMA based swap readahead
  mm: page_vma_mapped: ensure pmd is loaded with READ_ONCE outside of lock
  kmemleak: clear stale pointers from task stacks
  fs/binfmt_misc.c: node could be NULL when evicting inode
  fs/mpage.c: fix mpage_writepage() for pages with buffers
  linux/kernel.h: add/correct kernel-doc notation
  tty: fall back to N_NULL if switching to N_TTY fails during hangup
  Revert "vmalloc: back off when the current task is killed"
  mm/cma.c: take __GFP_NOWARN into account in cma_alloc()
  scripts/kallsyms.c: ignore symbol type 'n'
  userfaultfd: selftest: exercise -EEXIST only in background transfer
  mm: only display online cpus of the numa node
  mm: remove unnecessary WARN_ONCE in page_vma_mapped_walk().
  mm/mempolicy: fix NUMA_INTERLEAVE_HIT counter
  include/linux/of.h: provide of_n_{addr,size}_cells wrappers for !CONFIG_OF
  mm/madvise.c: add description for MADV_WIPEONFORK and MADV_KEEPONFORK
  ...
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.mailmap

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@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ Jacob Shin <Jacob.Shin@amd.com> 
James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.(none)>

James Bottomley <jejb@titanic.il.steeleye.com>

James E Wilson <wilson@specifix.com>

James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org> <james.hogan@imgtec.com>

James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org> <james@albanarts.com>

James Ketrenos <jketreno@io.(none)>

Javi Merino <javi.merino@kernel.org> <javi.merino@arm.com>

<javier@osg.samsung.com> <javier.martinez@collabora.co.uk>

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-swap

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@@ -14,13 +14,3 @@ Description: Enable/disable VMA based swap readahead. 
		still used for tmpfs etc. other users.  If set to

		false, the global swap readahead algorithm will be

		used for all swappable pages.
 


What:		/sys/kernel/mm/swap/vma_ra_max_order

Date:		August 2017

Contact:	Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>

Description:	The max readahead size in order for VMA based swap readahead



		VMA based swap readahead algorithm will readahead at

		most 1 << max_order pages for each readahead.  The

		real readahead size for each readahead will be scaled

		according to the estimation algorithm.

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power

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What;		/sys/power/pm_trace_dev_match

Date:		October 2010

Contact:	James Hogan <james@albanarts.com>

Contact:	James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>

Description:

		The /sys/power/pm_trace_dev_match file contains the name of the

		device associated with the last PM event point saved in the RTC

Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst

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Although MT wq wasted a lot of resource, the level of concurrency

provided was unsatisfactory.  The limitation was common to both ST and

MT wq albeit less severe on MT.  Each wq maintained its own separate

worker pool.  A MT wq could provide only one execution context per CPU

while a ST wq one for the whole system.  Work items had to compete for

worker pool.  An MT wq could provide only one execution context per CPU

while an ST wq one for the whole system.  Work items had to compete for

those very limited execution contexts leading to various problems

including proneness to deadlocks around the single execution context.
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ Application Programming Interface (API) 


``alloc_workqueue()`` allocates a wq.  The original

``create_*workqueue()`` functions are deprecated and scheduled for

removal.  ``alloc_workqueue()`` takes three arguments - @``name``,

removal.  ``alloc_workqueue()`` takes three arguments - ``@name``,

``@flags`` and ``@max_active``.  ``@name`` is the name of the wq and

also used as the name of the rescuer thread if there is one.
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ resources, scheduled and executed. 
  served by worker threads with elevated nice level.



  Note that normal and highpri worker-pools don't interact with

  each other.  Each maintain its separate pool of workers and

  each other.  Each maintains its separate pool of workers and

  implements concurrency management among its workers.



``WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE``
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time thus achieving the same ordering property as ST wq.



In the current implementation the above configuration only guarantees

ST behavior within a given NUMA node. Instead alloc_ordered_queue should

be used to achieve system wide ST behavior.

ST behavior within a given NUMA node. Instead ``alloc_ordered_queue()`` should

be used to achieve system-wide ST behavior.





Example Execution Scenarios

Documentation/cpu-freq/index.txt

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index.txt	-	File index, Mailing list and Links (this document)



intel-pstate.txt -	Intel pstate cpufreq driver specific file.



pcc-cpufreq.txt -	PCC cpufreq driver specific file.

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