Commit fbeb229a authored by Jakub Kicinski's avatar Jakub Kicinski
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What:		/sys/devices/virtual/memory_tiering/memory_tierN/
		/sys/devices/virtual/memory_tiering/memory_tierN/nodes
		/sys/devices/virtual/memory_tiering/memory_tierN/nodelist
Date:		August 2022
Contact:	Linux memory management mailing list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Description:	Directory with details of a specific memory tier
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		A smaller value of N implies a higher (faster) memory tier in the
		hierarchy.

		nodes: NUMA nodes that are part of this memory tier.
		nodelist: NUMA nodes that are part of this memory tier.
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.. warning::

    Beware that this will return a false positive if a
    :ref:`botton half lock <local_bh_disable>` is held.
    :ref:`bottom half lock <local_bh_disable>` is held.

Some Basic Rules
================
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5.2.21 was the final stable update of the 5.2 release.

Some kernels are designated "long term" kernels; they will receive support
for a longer period.  As of this writing, the current long term kernels
and their maintainers are:

	======  ================================	=======================
	3.16	Ben Hutchings				(very long-term kernel)
	4.4	Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin	(very long-term kernel)
	4.9	Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin
	4.14	Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin
	4.19	Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin
	5.4	Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin
	======  ================================	=======================
for a longer period.  Please refer to the following link for the list of active
long term kernel versions and their maintainers:

	https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

The selection of a kernel for long-term support is purely a matter of a
maintainer having the need and the time to maintain that release.  There
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 - "C:  A Reference Manual" by Harbison and Steele [Prentice Hall]

The kernel is written using GNU C and the GNU toolchain.  While it
adheres to the ISO C89 standard, it uses a number of extensions that are
adheres to the ISO C11 standard, it uses a number of extensions that are
not featured in the standard.  The kernel is a freestanding C
environment, with no reliance on the standard C library, so some
portions of the C standard are not supported.  Arbitrary long long
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  will use the event's kernel stacktrace as the key.  The keywords
  'keys' or 'key' can be used to specify keys, and the keywords
  'values', 'vals', or 'val' can be used to specify values.  Compound
  keys consisting of up to two fields can be specified by the 'keys'
  keys consisting of up to three fields can be specified by the 'keys'
  keyword.  Hashing a compound key produces a unique entry in the
  table for each unique combination of component keys, and can be
  useful for providing more fine-grained summaries of event data.
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