mm/ksm: docs: extend overview comment and make it "DOC:"
The existing comment provides a good overview of KSM implementation. Let's update it to reflect recent additions of "chain" and "dup" variants of the stable tree nodes and mark it as "DOC:" for inclusion into the KSM documentation. Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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#define DO_NUMA(x) do { } while (0)
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#endif
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/*
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/**
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* DOC: Overview
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*
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* A few notes about the KSM scanning process,
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* to make it easier to understand the data structures below:
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*
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* this tree is fully assured to be working (except when pages are unmapped),
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* and therefore this tree is called the stable tree.
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*
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* The stable tree node includes information required for reverse
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* mapping from a KSM page to virtual addresses that map this page.
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*
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* In order to avoid large latencies of the rmap walks on KSM pages,
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* KSM maintains two types of nodes in the stable tree:
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*
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* * the regular nodes that keep the reverse mapping structures in a
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* linked list
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* * the "chains" that link nodes ("dups") that represent the same
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* write protected memory content, but each "dup" corresponds to a
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* different KSM page copy of that content
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*
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* Internally, the regular nodes, "dups" and "chains" are represented
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* using the same :c:type:`struct stable_node` structure.
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*
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* In addition to the stable tree, KSM uses a second data structure called the
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* unstable tree: this tree holds pointers to pages which have been found to
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* be "unchanged for a period of time". The unstable tree sorts these pages
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