* [merged mm-stable] vmcore-convert-mmap_vmcore_fault-to-use-folios.patch removed from -mm tree
@ 2026-10-13 4:32 Andrew Morton
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From: Andrew Morton @ 2026-10-13 4:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: mm-commits, ruirui.yang, rppt, pratyush, pasha.tatashin,
baoquan.he, tz2294, akpm
The quilt patch titled
Subject: vmcore: convert mmap_vmcore_fault() to use folios
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
vmcore-convert-mmap_vmcore_fault-to-use-folios.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: Tal Zussman <tz2294@columbia.edu>
Subject: vmcore: convert mmap_vmcore_fault() to use folios
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:42:15 -0400
Use a folio for the page cache page the s390 fault handler reads the old
kernel's memory into. This removes four compound_head() calls and one of
the last callers of find_or_create_page().
The vmcore mapping only has order-0 folios, so the logic is unchanged.
Compile tested for s390.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260915-vmcore-fault-folio-v1-1-a0cb6278670f@columbia.edu
Signed-off-by: Tal Zussman <tz2294@columbia.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>
Cc: Dave Young <ruirui.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
---
fs/proc/vmcore.c | 27 ++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/proc/vmcore.c~vmcore-convert-mmap_vmcore_fault-to-use-folios
+++ a/fs/proc/vmcore.c
@@ -474,29 +474,30 @@ static vm_fault_t mmap_vmcore_fault(stru
pgoff_t index = vmf->pgoff;
struct iov_iter iter;
struct kvec kvec;
- struct page *page;
+ struct folio *folio;
loff_t offset;
int rc;
- page = find_or_create_page(mapping, index, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!page)
+ folio = __filemap_get_folio(mapping, index,
+ FGP_LOCK | FGP_ACCESSED | FGP_CREAT, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (IS_ERR(folio))
return VM_FAULT_OOM;
- if (!PageUptodate(page)) {
- offset = (loff_t) index << PAGE_SHIFT;
- kvec.iov_base = page_address(page);
- kvec.iov_len = PAGE_SIZE;
- iov_iter_kvec(&iter, ITER_DEST, &kvec, 1, PAGE_SIZE);
+ if (!folio_test_uptodate(folio)) {
+ offset = folio_pos(folio);
+ kvec.iov_base = folio_address(folio);
+ kvec.iov_len = folio_size(folio);
+ iov_iter_kvec(&iter, ITER_DEST, &kvec, 1, folio_size(folio));
rc = __read_vmcore(&iter, &offset);
if (rc < 0) {
- unlock_page(page);
- put_page(page);
+ folio_unlock(folio);
+ folio_put(folio);
return vmf_error(rc);
}
- SetPageUptodate(page);
+ folio_mark_uptodate(folio);
}
- unlock_page(page);
- vmf->page = page;
+ folio_unlock(folio);
+ vmf->page = folio_file_page(folio, index);
return 0;
#else
return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from tz2294@columbia.edu are
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