[PATCH v2 7/7] docs/core-api: mm-api: add section about GFP flags

From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Thu Jul 26 2018 - 08:22:33 EST


Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
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 b5913aa..3d2a7ec 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst
@@ -14,6 +14,28 @@ User Space Memory Access
.. kernel-doc:: mm/util.c
:functions: get_user_pages_fast

+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
==============

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