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pagemap: update BUDDY flag documentation
Since v4.6 the BUDDY flag is set for _all_ pages in the block and no longer just for the first one. This change was introduced by: commit 832fc1d ("/proc/kpageflags: return KPF_BUDDY for "tail" buddy pages") Strictly speaking, this was an ABI change, but as nobody has noticed since 2016, let's just update the documentation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251122211920.3410371-1-richard@nod.at Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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A free memory block managed by the buddy system allocator.
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The buddy system organizes free memory in blocks of various orders.
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An order N block has 2^N physically contiguous pages, with the BUDDY flag
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set for and _only_ for the first page.
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set for all pages.
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Before 4.6 only the first page of the block had the flag set.
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15 - COMPOUND_HEAD
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A compound page with order N consists of 2^N physically contiguous pages.
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A compound page with order 2 takes the form of "HTTT", where H donates its

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