linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst: delete frequently changing experimental data

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Date:   Wed,  5 Oct 2022 17:10:52 +0800
From:   Yixuan Cao <caoyixuan2019@...il.szu.edu.cn>
To:     rppt@...nel.org
Cc:     akiyks@...il.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, bagasdotme@...il.com,
        caoyixuan2019@...il.szu.edu.cn, corbet@....net,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        skhan@...uxfoundation.org, yejiajian2018@...il.szu.edu.cn,
        zhangyinan2019@...il.szu.edu.cn
Subject: [PATCH v2] Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst: delete frequently changing experimental data

Thanks for Jonathan Corbet, Bagas Sanjaya and Mike Rapoport's
constructive suggestions. Notice that the size(1) output is
changing frequently, I remove the two tables and describe them
in a general way. Doing so avoids having to repeatedly maintain
the two tables due to kernel changes.

Signed-off-by: Yixuan Cao <caoyixuan2019@...il.szu.edu.cn>
---
 Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst | 20 ++++----------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst
index f18fd8907049..1b661ad85647 100644
--- a/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst
+++ b/Documentation/mm/page_owner.rst
@@ -38,22 +38,10 @@ 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::
-
-   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
-   48392   2333     644   51369    c8a9 mm/page_alloc.o
-
-- With page owner::
-
-   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
-   48800   2445     644   51889    cab1 mm/page_alloc.o
-   6662     108      29    6799    1a8f mm/page_owner.o
-   1025       8       8    1041     411 mm/page_ext.o
-
-Although, roughly, 8 KB code is added in total, page_alloc.o increase by
-520 bytes and less than half of it is in hotpath. Building the kernel with
-page owner and turning it on if needed would be great option to debug
-kernel memory problem.
+Although, enabling page owner increases kernel size by several kilobytes,
+most of this code is outside page allocator and its hot path. Building 
+the kernel with page owner and turning it on if needed would be great
+option to debug kernel memory problem.
 
 There is one notice that is caused by implementation detail. page owner
 stores information into the memory from struct page extension. This memory
-- 
2.17.1