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We have to allocate memory in order to split a file-backed folio, so it's not a good idea to split them in the memory freeing path. It also doesn't work for XFS because pages have an extra reference count from page_has_private() and split_huge_page() expects that reference to have already been removed. Unfortunately, we still have to split shmem THPs because we can't handle swapping out an entire THP yet. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.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 Restructured Text 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.