[PATCH 19/32] docs/vm: page_owner: convert to ReST format

Mike Rapoport rppt at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Mar 22 06:22:35 AEDT 2018


Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 Documentation/vm/page_owner.txt | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_owner.txt b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.txt
index ffff143..0ed5ab8 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/page_owner.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
+.. _page_owner:
+
+==================================================
 page owner: Tracking about who allocated each page
------------------------------------------------------------
+==================================================
 
-* Introduction
+Introduction
+============
 
 page owner is for the tracking about who allocated each page.
 It can be used to debug memory leak or to find a memory hogger.
@@ -34,13 +38,15 @@ not affect to allocation performance, especially if the static keys jump
 label patching functionality is available. Following is the kernel's code
 size change due to this facility.
 
-- Without page owner
+- Without page owner::
+
    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
-  40662    1493     644   42799    a72f mm/page_alloc.o
+   40662   1493     644   42799    a72f mm/page_alloc.o
+
+- With page owner::
 
-- With page owner
    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
-  40892    1493     644   43029    a815 mm/page_alloc.o
+   40892   1493     644   43029    a815 mm/page_alloc.o
    1427      24       8    1459     5b3 mm/page_ext.o
    2722      50       0    2772     ad4 mm/page_owner.o
 
@@ -62,21 +68,23 @@ are catched and marked, although they are mostly allocated from struct
 page extension feature. Anyway, after that, no page is left in
 un-tracking state.
 
-* Usage
+Usage
+=====
+
+1) Build user-space helper::
 
-1) Build user-space helper
 	cd tools/vm
 	make page_owner_sort
 
-2) Enable page owner
-	Add "page_owner=on" to boot cmdline.
+2) Enable page owner: add "page_owner=on" to boot cmdline.
 
 3) Do the job what you want to debug
 
-4) Analyze information from page owner
+4) Analyze information from page owner::
+
 	cat /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner > page_owner_full.txt
 	grep -v ^PFN page_owner_full.txt > page_owner.txt
 	./page_owner_sort page_owner.txt sorted_page_owner.txt
 
-	See the result about who allocated each page
-	in the sorted_page_owner.txt.
+   See the result about who allocated each page
+   in the ``sorted_page_owner.txt``.
-- 
2.7.4



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