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Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node
@@ -90,4 +90,4 @@ Date:		December 2009
 Contact:	Lee Schermerhorn <[email protected]>
 Description:
 		The node's huge page size control/query attributes.
-		See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
+		See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-hugepages
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ Description:
 			free_hugepages
 			surplus_hugepages
 			resv_hugepages
-		See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt for details.
+		See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-mm-ksm
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Description:	Kernel Samepage Merging daemon sysfs interface
 		sleep_millisecs: how many milliseconds ksm should sleep between
 		scans.
 
-		See Documentation/vm/ksm.txt for more information.
+		See Documentation/vm/ksm.rst for more information.
 
 What:		/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes
 Date:		January 2013

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Description:
 		The alloc_calls file is read-only and lists the kernel code
 		locations from which allocations for this cache were performed.
 		The alloc_calls file only contains information if debugging is
-		enabled for that cache (see Documentation/vm/slub.txt).
+		enabled for that cache (see Documentation/vm/slub.rst).
 
 What:		/sys/kernel/slab/cache/alloc_fastpath
 Date:		February 2008
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ Contact:	Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>,
 Description:
 		The free_calls file is read-only and lists the locations of
 		object frees if slab debugging is enabled (see
-		Documentation/vm/slub.txt).
+		Documentation/vm/slub.rst).
 
 What:		/sys/kernel/slab/cache/free_fastpath
 Date:		February 2008

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3887,7 +3887,7 @@
 			cache (risks via metadata attacks are mostly
 			unchanged). Debug options disable merging on their
 			own.
-			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
+			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
 
 	slab_max_order=	[MM, SLAB]
 			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
@@ -3901,7 +3901,7 @@
 			slub_debug can create guard zones around objects and
 			may poison objects when not in use. Also tracks the
 			last alloc / free. For more information see
-			Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
+			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
 
 	slub_memcg_sysfs=	[MM, SLUB]
 			Determines whether to enable sysfs directories for
@@ -3915,7 +3915,7 @@
 			Determines the maximum allowed order for slabs.
 			A high setting may cause OOMs due to memory
 			fragmentation. For more information see
-			Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
+			Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
 
 	slub_min_objects=	[MM, SLUB]
 			The minimum number of objects per slab. SLUB will
@@ -3924,12 +3924,12 @@
 			the number of objects indicated. The higher the number
 			of objects the smaller the overhead of tracking slabs
 			and the less frequently locks need to be acquired.
-			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
+			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
 
 	slub_min_order=	[MM, SLUB]
 			Determines the minimum page order for slabs. Must be
 			lower than slub_max_order.
-			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.txt.
+			For more information see Documentation/vm/slub.rst.
 
 	slub_nomerge	[MM, SLUB]
 			Same with slab_nomerge. This is supported for legacy.
@@ -4285,7 +4285,7 @@
 			Format: [always|madvise|never]
 			Can be used to control the default behavior of the system
 			with respect to transparent hugepages.
-			See Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt for more details.
+			See Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst for more details.
 
 	tsc=		Disable clocksource stability checks for TSC.
 			Format: <string>

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ A typical out of bounds access report looks like this::
 
 The header of the report discribe what kind of bug happened and what kind of
 access caused it. It's followed by the description of the accessed slub object
-(see 'SLUB Debug output' section in Documentation/vm/slub.txt for details) and
+(see 'SLUB Debug output' section in Documentation/vm/slub.rst for details) and
 the description of the accessed memory page.
 
 In the last section the report shows memory state around the accessed address.

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ guarantees:
 
 The /proc/PID/clear_refs is used to reset the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG
 bits on both physical and virtual pages associated with a process, and the
-soft-dirty bit on pte (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for details).
+soft-dirty bit on pte (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.rst for details).
 To clear the bits for all the pages associated with the process
     > echo 1 > /proc/PID/clear_refs
 
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ Any other value written to /proc/PID/clear_refs will have no effect.
 
 The /proc/pid/pagemap gives the PFN, which can be used to find the pageflags
 using /proc/kpageflags and number of times a page is mapped using
-/proc/kpagecount. For detailed explanation, see Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt.
+/proc/kpagecount. For detailed explanation, see Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst.
 
 The /proc/pid/numa_maps is an extension based on maps, showing the memory
 locality and binding policy, as well as the memory usage (in pages) of

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ policy for the file will revert to "default" policy.
 NUMA memory allocation policies have optional flags that can be used in
 conjunction with their modes.  These optional flags can be specified
 when tmpfs is mounted by appending them to the mode before the NodeList.
-See Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt for a list of all available
+See Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.rst for a list of all available
 memory allocation policy mode flags and their effect on memory policy.
 
 	=static		is equivalent to	MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ nr_hugepages
 
 Change the minimum size of the hugepage pool.
 
-See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
+See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst
 
 ==============================================================
 
@@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ nr_overcommit_hugepages
 Change the maximum size of the hugepage pool. The maximum is
 nr_hugepages + nr_overcommit_hugepages.
 
-See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
+See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst
 
 ==============================================================
 
@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ and don't use much of it.
 
 The default value is 0.
 
-See Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting and
+See Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.rst and
 mm/mmap.c::__vm_enough_memory() for more information.
 
 ==============================================================

diff --git a/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX b/Documentation/vm/00-INDEX
@@ -1,62 +1,62 @@
 00-INDEX
 	- this file.
-active_mm.txt
+active_mm.rst
 	- An explanation from Linus about tsk->active_mm vs tsk->mm.
-balance
+balance.rst
 	- various information on memory balancing.
-cleancache.txt
+cleancache.rst
 	- Intro to cleancache and page-granularity victim cache.
-frontswap.txt
+frontswap.rst
 	- Outline frontswap, part of the transcendent memory frontend.
-highmem.txt
+highmem.rst
 	- Outline of highmem and common issues.
-hmm.txt
+hmm.rst
 	- Documentation of heterogeneous memory management
-hugetlbpage.txt
+hugetlbpage.rst
 	- a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in the Linux kernel.
-hugetlbfs_reserv.txt
+hugetlbfs_reserv.rst
 	- A brief overview of hugetlbfs reservation design/implementation.
-hwpoison.txt
+hwpoison.rst
 	- explains what hwpoison is
-idle_page_tracking.txt
+idle_page_tracking.rst
 	- description of the idle page tracking feature.
-ksm.txt
+ksm.rst
 	- how to use the Kernel Samepage Merging feature.
-mmu_notifier.txt
+mmu_notifier.rst
 	- a note about clearing pte/pmd and mmu notifications
-numa
+numa.rst
 	- information about NUMA specific code in the Linux vm.
-numa_memory_policy.txt
+numa_memory_policy.rst
 	- documentation of concepts and APIs of the 2.6 memory policy support.
-overcommit-accounting
+overcommit-accounting.rst
 	- description of the Linux kernels overcommit handling modes.
-page_frags
+page_frags.rst
 	- description of page fragments allocator
-page_migration
+page_migration.rst
 	- description of page migration in NUMA systems.
-pagemap.txt
+pagemap.rst
 	- pagemap, from the userspace perspective
-page_owner.txt
+page_owner.rst
 	- tracking about who allocated each page
-remap_file_pages.txt
+remap_file_pages.rst
 	- a note about remap_file_pages() system call
-slub.txt
+slub.rst
 	- a short users guide for SLUB.
-soft-dirty.txt
+soft-dirty.rst
 	- short explanation for soft-dirty PTEs
-split_page_table_lock
+split_page_table_lock.rst
 	- Separate per-table lock to improve scalability of the old page_table_lock.
-swap_numa.txt
+swap_numa.rst
 	- automatic binding of swap device to numa node
-transhuge.txt
+transhuge.rst
 	- Transparent Hugepage Support, alternative way of using hugepages.
-unevictable-lru.txt
+unevictable-lru.rst
 	- Unevictable LRU infrastructure
-userfaultfd.txt
+userfaultfd.rst
 	- description of userfaultfd system call
 z3fold.txt
 	- outline of z3fold allocator for storing compressed pages
-zsmalloc.txt
+zsmalloc.rst
 	- outline of zsmalloc allocator for storing compressed pages
-zswap.txt
+zswap.rst
 	- Intro to compressed cache for swap pages
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/active_mm.txt → Documentation/vm/active_mm.rst b/Documentation/vm/active_mm.txt → Documentation/vm/active_mm.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/balance → Documentation/vm/balance.rst b/Documentation/vm/balance → Documentation/vm/balance.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt → Documentation/vm/cleancache.rst b/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt → Documentation/vm/cleancache.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/frontswap.txt → Documentation/vm/frontswap.rst b/Documentation/vm/frontswap.txt → Documentation/vm/frontswap.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/highmem.txt → Documentation/vm/highmem.rst b/Documentation/vm/highmem.txt → Documentation/vm/highmem.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hmm.txt → Documentation/vm/hmm.rst b/Documentation/vm/hmm.txt → Documentation/vm/hmm.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbfs_reserv.txt → Documentation/vm/hugetlbfs_reserv.rst b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbfs_reserv.txt → Documentation/vm/hugetlbfs_reserv.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt → Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst b/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt → Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ When adjusting the persistent hugepage count via ``nr_hugepages_mempolicy``, any
 memory policy mode--bind, preferred, local or interleave--may be used.  The
 resulting effect on persistent huge page allocation is as follows:
 
-#. Regardless of mempolicy mode [see Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt],
+#. Regardless of mempolicy mode [see Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.rst],
    persistent huge pages will be distributed across the node or nodes
    specified in the mempolicy as if "interleave" had been specified.
    However, if a node in the policy does not contain sufficient contiguous

diff --git a/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt → Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst b/Documentation/vm/hwpoison.txt → Documentation/vm/hwpoison.rst
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Testing
 	value).  This allows stress testing of many kinds of
 	pages. The page_flags are the same as in /proc/kpageflags. The
 	flag bits are defined in include/linux/kernel-page-flags.h and
-	documented in Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
+	documented in Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst
 
 * Architecture specific MCE injector
 

diff --git a/Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.txt → Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.rst b/Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.txt → Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.rst
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ workload one should:
     are not reclaimable, he or she can filter them out using
     ``/proc/kpageflags``.
 
-See Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt for more information about
+See Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst for more information about
 ``/proc/pid/pagemap``, ``/proc/kpageflags``, and ``/proc/kpagecgroup``.
 
 .. _impl_details:

diff --git a/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt → Documentation/vm/ksm.rst b/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt → Documentation/vm/ksm.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.txt → Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.rst b/Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.txt → Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/numa → Documentation/vm/numa.rst b/Documentation/vm/numa → Documentation/vm/numa.rst
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ to improve NUMA locality using various CPU affinity command line interfaces,
 such as taskset(1) and numactl(1), and program interfaces such as
 sched_setaffinity(2).  Further, one can modify the kernel's default local
 allocation behavior using Linux NUMA memory policy.
-[see Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt.]
+[see Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.rst.]
 
 System administrators can restrict the CPUs and nodes' memories that a non-
 privileged user can specify in the scheduling or NUMA commands and functions

diff --git a/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt → Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.rst b/Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt → Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting → Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.rst b/Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting → Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_frags → Documentation/vm/page_frags.rst b/Documentation/vm/page_frags → Documentation/vm/page_frags.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_migration → Documentation/vm/page_migration.rst b/Documentation/vm/page_migration → Documentation/vm/page_migration.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/page_owner.txt → Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst b/Documentation/vm/page_owner.txt → Documentation/vm/page_owner.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt → Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt → Documentation/vm/pagemap.rst
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ There are four components to pagemap:
     * Bits 0-54  page frame number (PFN) if present
     * 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)
+    * Bit  55    pte is soft-dirty (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.rst)
     * Bit  56    page exclusively mapped (since 4.2)
     * Bits 57-60 zero
     * Bit  61    page is file-page or shared-anon (since 3.5)
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags:
     A compound page with order N consists of 2^N physically contiguous pages.
     A compound page with order 2 takes the form of "HTTT", where H donates its
     head page and T donates its tail page(s).  The major consumers of compound
-    pages are hugeTLB pages (Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt), the SLUB etc.
+    pages are hugeTLB pages (Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst), the SLUB etc.
     memory allocators and various device drivers. However in this interface,
     only huge/giga pages are made visible to end users.
 16 - COMPOUND_TAIL
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags:
     zero page for pfn_zero or huge_zero page
 25 - IDLE
     page has not been accessed since it was marked idle (see
-    Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.txt). Note that this flag may be
+    Documentation/vm/idle_page_tracking.rst). Note that this flag may be
     stale in case the page was accessed via a PTE. To make sure the flag
     is up-to-date one has to read ``/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap`` first.
 

diff --git a/Documentation/vm/remap_file_pages.txt → Documentation/vm/remap_file_pages.rst b/Documentation/vm/remap_file_pages.txt → Documentation/vm/remap_file_pages.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/slub.txt → Documentation/vm/slub.rst b/Documentation/vm/slub.txt → Documentation/vm/slub.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt → Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.rst b/Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt → Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock → Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock.rst b/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock → Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/swap_numa.txt → Documentation/vm/swap_numa.rst b/Documentation/vm/swap_numa.txt → Documentation/vm/swap_numa.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt → Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt → Documentation/vm/transhuge.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt → Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst b/Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt → Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/userfaultfd.txt → Documentation/vm/userfaultfd.rst b/Documentation/vm/userfaultfd.txt → Documentation/vm/userfaultfd.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/z3fold.txt → Documentation/vm/z3fold.rst b/Documentation/vm/z3fold.txt → Documentation/vm/z3fold.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/zsmalloc.txt → Documentation/vm/zsmalloc.rst b/Documentation/vm/zsmalloc.txt → Documentation/vm/zsmalloc.rst
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/zswap.txt → Documentation/vm/zswap.rst b/Documentation/vm/zswap.txt → Documentation/vm/zswap.rst
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -15406,7 +15406,7 @@ L:	[email protected]
 S:	Maintained
 F:	mm/zsmalloc.c
 F:	include/linux/zsmalloc.h
-F:	Documentation/vm/zsmalloc.txt
+F:	Documentation/vm/zsmalloc.rst
 
 ZSWAP COMPRESSED SWAP CACHING
 M:	Seth Jennings <[email protected]>

diff --git a/arch/alpha/Kconfig b/arch/alpha/Kconfig
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ config ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
 	  Say Y to support efficient handling of discontiguous physical memory,
 	  for architectures which are either NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access)
 	  or have huge holes in the physical address space for other reasons.
-	  See <file:Documentation/vm/numa> for more.
+	  See <file:Documentation/vm/numa.rst> for more.
 
 source "mm/Kconfig"
 

diff --git a/arch/ia64/Kconfig b/arch/ia64/Kconfig
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ config ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
 	  Say Y to support efficient handling of discontiguous physical memory,
 	  for architectures which are either NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access)
 	  or have huge holes in the physical address space for other reasons.
- 	  See <file:Documentation/vm/numa> for more.
+	  See <file:Documentation/vm/numa.rst> for more.
 
 config ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE
 	def_bool y

diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -2551,7 +2551,7 @@ config ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
 	  Say Y to support efficient handling of discontiguous physical memory,
 	  for architectures which are either NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access)
 	  or have huge holes in the physical address space for other reasons.
-	  See <file:Documentation/vm/numa> for more.
+	  See <file:Documentation/vm/numa.rst> for more.
 
 config ARCH_SPARSEMEM_ENABLE
 	bool

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ config PPC_MEM_KEYS
 	  page-based protections, but without requiring modification of the
 	  page tables when an application changes protection domains.
 
-	  For details, see Documentation/vm/protection-keys.txt
+	  For details, see Documentation/vm/protection-keys.rst
 
 	  If unsure, say y.
 

diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ config HUGETLBFS
 	help
 	  hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on
 	  ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read
-	  <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt> for details.
+	  <file:Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.rst> for details.
 
 	  If unsure, say N.
 

diff --git a/fs/dax.c b/fs/dax.c
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ static void dax_mapping_entry_mkclean(struct address_space *mapping,
 		 * downgrading page table protection not changing it to point
 		 * to a new page.
 		 *
-		 * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.txt
+		 * See Documentation/vm/mmu_notifier.rst
 		 */
 		if (pmdp) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_FS_DAX_PMD

diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
@@ -956,7 +956,7 @@ static inline void clear_soft_dirty(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	/*
 	 * The soft-dirty tracker uses #PF-s to catch writes
 	 * to pages, so write-protect the pte as well. See the
-	 * Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for full description
+	 * Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.rst for full description
 	 * of how soft-dirty works.
 	 */
 	pte_t ptent = *pte;
@@ -1436,7 +1436,7 @@ static int pagemap_hugetlb_range(pte_t *ptep, unsigned long hmask,
  * Bits 0-54  page frame number (PFN) if present
  * 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)
+ * Bit  55    pte is soft-dirty (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.rst)
  * Bit  56    page exclusively mapped
  * Bits 57-60 zero
  * Bit  61    page is file-page or shared-anon

diff --git a/include/linux/hmm.h b/include/linux/hmm.h
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 /*
  * Heterogeneous Memory Management (HMM)
  *
- * See Documentation/vm/hmm.txt for reasons and overview of what HMM is and it
+ * See Documentation/vm/hmm.rst for reasons and overview of what HMM is and it
  * is for. Here we focus on the HMM API description, with some explanation of
  * the underlying implementation.
  *