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Michal Hocko abaed0112c mm, vmstat: hide /proc/pagetypeinfo from normal users 
/proc/pagetypeinfo is a debugging tool to examine internal page
allocator state wrt to fragmentation.  It is not very useful for any
other use so normal users really do not need to read this file.

Waiman Long has noticed that reading this file can have negative side
effects because zone->lock is necessary for gathering data and that a)
interferes with the page allocator and its users and b) can lead to hard
lockups on large machines which have very long free_list.

Reduce both issues by simply not exporting the file to regular users.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191025072610.18526-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Fixes: 467c996c1e ("Print out statistics in relation to fragmentation avoidance to /proc/pagetypeinfo")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reported-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-11-06 08:47:50 -08:00
arch powerpc fixes for 5.4 #4 2019-11-02 11:08:19 -07:00
block iocost: don't nest spin_lock_irq in ioc_weight_write() 2019-10-31 11:40:57 -06:00
certs PKCS#7: Refactor verify_pkcs7_signature() 2019-08-05 18:40:18 -04:00
crypto Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-01 17:48:11 -07:00
drivers USB fixes for 5.4-rc6 2019-11-03 08:25:25 -08:00
fs ocfs2: protect extent tree in ocfs2_prepare_inode_for_write() 2019-11-06 08:47:08 -08:00
include mm: thp: handle page cache THP correctly in PageTransCompoundMap 2019-11-06 08:28:58 -08:00
init Merge branch 'next-lockdown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-09-28 08:14:15 -07:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: convert to use built-in RCU list checking 2019-09-25 17:51:41 -07:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-01 17:48:11 -07:00
lib lib/vdso: Make clock_getres() POSIX compliant again 2019-10-23 14:48:23 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm mm, vmstat: hide /proc/pagetypeinfo from normal users 2019-11-06 08:47:50 -08:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-01 17:48:11 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: Add a workaround for asm_inline 2019-10-03 17:37:11 +02:00
scripts Modules fixes for v5.4-rc5 2019-10-25 16:11:55 -04:00
security efi/efi_test: Lock down /dev/efi_test and require CAP_SYS_ADMIN 2019-10-31 09:40:21 +01:00
sound ALSA: timer: Fix mutex deadlock at releasing card 2019-10-30 22:54:56 +01:00
tools mm/gup_benchmark: fix MAP_HUGETLB case 2019-11-06 08:28:58 -08:00
usr kbuild: update compile-test header list for v5.4-rc2 2019-10-05 15:29:49 +09:00
virt kvm: call kvm_arch_destroy_vm if vm creation fails 2019-10-31 12:13:16 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2019-08-31 10:00:51 +02:00
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.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Modules updates for v5.4 2019-09-22 10:34:46 -07:00
.mailmap A few MIPS fixes: 2019-10-26 19:43:12 -04:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove Simon as Renesas SoC Co-Maintainer 2019-10-10 08:12:51 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: do not descend to ./Kbuild when cleaning 2019-08-21 21:03:58 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2019-11-01 17:48:11 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.4-rc6 2019-11-03 14:07:26 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

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.