Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
 "Almost all of the rest of MM.  There was an unusually large amount of
  MM material this time"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (141 commits)
  zpool: remove no-op module init/exit
  mm: zbud: constify the zbud_ops
  mm: zpool: constify the zpool_ops
  mm: swap: zswap: maybe_preload & refactoring
  zram: unify error reporting
  zsmalloc: remove null check from destroy_handle_cache()
  zsmalloc: do not take class lock in zs_shrinker_count()
  zsmalloc: use class->pages_per_zspage
  zsmalloc: consider ZS_ALMOST_FULL as migrate source
  zsmalloc: partial page ordering within a fullness_list
  zsmalloc: use shrinker to trigger auto-compaction
  zsmalloc: account the number of compacted pages
  zsmalloc/zram: introduce zs_pool_stats api
  zsmalloc: cosmetic compaction code adjustments
  zsmalloc: introduce zs_can_compact() function
  zsmalloc: always keep per-class stats
  zsmalloc: drop unused variable `nr_to_migrate'
  mm/memblock.c: fix comment in __next_mem_range()
  mm/page_alloc.c: fix type information of memoryless node
  memory-hotplug: fix comments in zone_spanned_pages_in_node() and zone_spanned_pages_in_node()
  ...

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
index 6bfbc172cdb9..3cd38438242a 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
@@ -16,11 +16,17 @@ There are three components to pagemap:
     * Bits 0-4   swap type if swapped
     * Bits 5-54  swap offset if swapped
     * Bit  55    pte is soft-dirty (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt)
-    * Bits 56-60 zero
-    * Bit  61    page is file-page or shared-anon
+    * Bit  56    page exclusively mapped (since 4.2)
+    * Bits 57-60 zero
+    * Bit  61    page is file-page or shared-anon (since 3.5)
     * Bit  62    page swapped
     * Bit  63    page present
 
+   Since Linux 4.0 only users with the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability can get PFNs.
+   In 4.0 and 4.1 opens by unprivileged fail with -EPERM.  Starting from
+   4.2 the PFN field is zeroed if the user does not have CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
+   Reason: information about PFNs helps in exploiting Rowhammer vulnerability.
+
    If the page is not present but in swap, then the PFN contains an
    encoding of the swap file number and the page's offset into the
    swap. Unmapped pages return a null PFN. This allows determining
@@ -159,3 +165,8 @@ Other notes:
 Reading from any of the files will return -EINVAL if you are not starting
 the read on an 8-byte boundary (e.g., if you sought an odd number of bytes
 into the file), or if the size of the read is not a multiple of 8 bytes.
+
+Before Linux 3.11 pagemap bits 55-60 were used for "page-shift" (which is
+always 12 at most architectures). Since Linux 3.11 their meaning changes
+after first clear of soft-dirty bits. Since Linux 4.2 they are used for
+flags unconditionally.