From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,rppt@kernel.org,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [to-be-updated] mm-vmalloc-constify-vm-parameter-of-get_vm_area_page_order.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:48:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260906014822.545F81F00A3A@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/vmalloc: constify vm parameter of get_vm_area_page_order()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-vmalloc-constify-vm-parameter-of-get_vm_area_page_order.patch
This patch was dropped because an updated version will be issued
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From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Subject: mm/vmalloc: constify vm parameter of get_vm_area_page_order()
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:46:14 +0300
get_vm_area_page_order() and vm_area_page_order() do not need to modify
struct vm_struct passed to them.
Constify the parameter.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260823-execmem-set-vm-perms-v0-2-v2-3-b013a37d84b3@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 4 ++--
mm/vmalloc.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c~mm-vmalloc-constify-vm-parameter-of-get_vm_area_page_order
+++ a/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -3129,7 +3129,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_map_ram);
static struct vm_struct *vmlist __initdata;
-static inline unsigned int vm_area_page_order(struct vm_struct *vm)
+static inline unsigned int vm_area_page_order(const struct vm_struct *vm)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMALLOC
return vm->page_order;
@@ -3138,7 +3138,7 @@ static inline unsigned int vm_area_page_
#endif
}
-unsigned int get_vm_area_page_order(struct vm_struct *vm)
+unsigned int get_vm_area_page_order(const struct vm_struct *vm)
{
return vm_area_page_order(vm);
}
--- a/mm/vmalloc.h~mm-vmalloc-constify-vm-parameter-of-get_vm_area_page_order
+++ a/mm/vmalloc.h
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ void __init vmalloc_init(void);
int __must_check vmap_pages_range_noflush(unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
pgprot_t prot, struct page **pages,
unsigned int page_shift, gfp_t gfp_mask);
-unsigned int get_vm_area_page_order(struct vm_struct *vm);
+unsigned int get_vm_area_page_order(const struct vm_struct *vm);
#else
static inline void vmalloc_init(void) {}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from rppt@kernel.org are
mm-vmalloc-make-set_area_direct_map-huge_vmap-friendly.patch
mm-execmem-use-vm_flush_reset_perms-for-rox-cache-allocations.patch
revert-arch-introduce-set_direct_map_valid_noflush.patch
docs-core-api-memory-allocation-add-kalloc_obj-and-clarify-kmalloc.patch
maintainers-add-memory-related-docs-in-core-mm-to-mm-misc-section.patch
sh-remove-config_numa-and-realted-configuration-options.patch
sh-mm-remove-numac.patch
sh-mm-drop-allocate_pgdat.patch
sh-remove-setup_bootmem_node-and-plat_mem_setup.patch
sh-drop-dead-code-guarded-by-ifdef-config_numa.patch
sh-drop-include-asm-mmzoneh.patch
init-kconfig-drop-arch_want_numa_variable_locality.patch
sh-init-remove-call-the-memblock_set_node.patch
sh-remove-sparsemem-related-entries-from-kconfig.patch
sh-drop-include-asm-sparsememh.patch
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