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The old name "avoid_reserve" can be too generic and can be used wrongly in the new call sites that want to allocate a hugetlb folio. It's confusing on two things: (1) whether one can opt-in to avoid global reservation, and (2) whether it should take more than one count. In reality, this flag is only used in an extremely hacky path, in an extremely hacky way in hugetlb CoW path only, and always use with 1 saying "skip global reservation". Rename the flag to avoid future abuse of this flag, making it a boolean so as to reflect its true representation that it's not a counter. To make it even harder to abuse, add a comment above the function to explain it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250107204002.2683356-4-peterx@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com> Cc: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.