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* [merged mm-stable] hugetlb-add-documentation-for-vma_kernel_pagesize.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2023-08-24 23:22 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2023-08-24 23:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mm-commits, mike.kravetz, willy, akpm


The quilt patch titled
     Subject: hugetlb: add documentation for vma_kernel_pagesize()
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     hugetlb-add-documentation-for-vma_kernel_pagesize.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: hugetlb: add documentation for vma_kernel_pagesize()
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 18:24:59 +0100

This is an exported symbol, so it should have kernel-doc.  Update it to
mention folios, and point out that they might be larger than the supported
page size for this VMA.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230822172459.4190699-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/hugetlb.c |   11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/hugetlb.c~hugetlb-add-documentation-for-vma_kernel_pagesize
+++ a/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -968,9 +968,14 @@ pgoff_t linear_hugepage_index(struct vm_
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(linear_hugepage_index);
 
-/*
- * Return the size of the pages allocated when backing a VMA. In the majority
- * cases this will be same size as used by the page table entries.
+/**
+ * vma_kernel_pagesize - Page size granularity for this VMA.
+ * @vma: The user mapping.
+ *
+ * Folios in this VMA will be aligned to, and at least the size of the
+ * number of bytes returned by this function.
+ *
+ * Return: The default size of the folios allocated when backing a VMA.
  */
 unsigned long vma_kernel_pagesize(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from willy@infradead.org are



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