Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the akpm-current tree

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Feb 03 2022 - 18:07:02 EST


On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 14:54:37 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> After merging the akpm-current tree, today's linux-next build (htmldocs)
> produced this warning:
>
> Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst:603: WARNING: Malformed table.
> Text in column margin in table line 2.
>
> = =================================
> 0x0 NUMA_BALANCING_DISABLED
> 0x1 NUMA_BALANCING_NORMAL
> 0x2 NUMA_BALANCING_MEMORY_TIERING
> = =================================
>
> Introduced by commit
>
> 49ec6eb41c49 ("NUMA balancing: optimize page placement for memory tiering system")

I assume this fixes? (With gratuitous grammar fixes)

--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst~numa-balancing-optimize-page-placement-for-memory-tiering-system-fix
+++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst
@@ -595,14 +595,14 @@ Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-paramet
numa_balancing
==============

-Enables/disables and configure automatic page fault based NUMA memory
-balancing. Memory is moved automatically to nodes that access it
-often. The value to set can be the result to OR the following,
+Enables/disables and configures automatic page fault based NUMA memory
+balancing. Memory is moved automatically to nodes that access it often.
+The value to set can be the result of ORing the following,

= =================================
-0x0 NUMA_BALANCING_DISABLED
-0x1 NUMA_BALANCING_NORMAL
-0x2 NUMA_BALANCING_MEMORY_TIERING
+0 NUMA_BALANCING_DISABLED
+1 NUMA_BALANCING_NORMAL
+2 NUMA_BALANCING_MEMORY_TIERING
= =================================

Or NUMA_BALANCING_NORMAL to optimize page placement among different
_