From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,vdavydov@virtuozzo.com,rppt@kernel.org,n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com,lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com,koct9i@gmail.com,david@kernel.org,richard@nod.at,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-stable] pagemap-update-buddy-flag-documentation.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:11:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251124231123.5ABFAC4CEF1@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: pagemap: update BUDDY flag documentation
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
pagemap-update-buddy-flag-documentation.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: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Subject: pagemap: update BUDDY flag documentation
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:19:20 +0100
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 832fc1de01ae ("/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>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst~pagemap-update-buddy-flag-documentation
+++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/pagemap.rst
@@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags
A free memory block managed by the buddy system allocator.
The buddy system organizes free memory in blocks of various orders.
An order N block has 2^N physically contiguous pages, with the BUDDY flag
- set for and _only_ for the first page.
+ set for all pages.
+ Before 4.6 only the first page of the block had the flag set.
15 - COMPOUND_HEAD
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
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from richard@nod.at are
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