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This is another run of the Coccinelle script for converting kmalloc() family of allocations to kmalloc_obj() via the existing rules in scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci This catches both the set of kmalloc() uses added since the first kmalloc_obj() conversions in v7.0 and adds a large group missed in the first pass due to Coccinelle not interacting well with the cleanup.h scoped_...() family of macros[1]. I worked around this with spatch's "--macro-file" argument to a file with all the scoped_...() macros mapped to Coccinelle's YACFE_ITERATOR[2] as that was the closest viable control flow indicator I could find. Build tested allmodconfig on x86, arm64, arm, loongarch, mips, powerpc, riscv, and s390 with no new warnings. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202609021314.8A9C0B8@keescook/ [1] Link: https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/master/standard.h [2] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org>
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+=================
+Memory Management
+=================
+
+Linux memory management subsystem is responsible, as the name implies,
+for managing the memory in the system. This includes implementation of
+virtual memory and demand paging, memory allocation both for kernel
+internal structures and user space programs, mapping of files into
+processes address space and many other cool things.
+
+Linux memory management is a complex system with many configurable
+settings. Most of these settings are available via ``/proc``
+filesystem and can be queried and adjusted using ``sysctl``. These APIs
+are described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst and in `man 5 proc`_.
+
+.. _man 5 proc: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html
+
+Linux memory management has its own jargon and if you are not yet
+familiar with it, consider reading Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst.
+
+Here we document in detail how to interact with various mechanisms in
+the Linux memory management.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ concepts
+ cma_debugfs
+ damon/index
+ hugetlbpage
+ idle_page_tracking
+ ksm
+ memory-hotplug
+ multigen_lru
+ nommu-mmap
+ numa_memory_policy
+ numaperf
+ pagemap
+ shrinker_debugfs
+ slab
+ soft-dirty
+ transhuge
+ userfaultfd
+ zswap
+ kho