From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: [merged mm-stable] fs-proc-page-clarify-comment-in-get_max_dump_pfn.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2026 01:59:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261024085906.9FFA91F01828@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: fs/proc/page: clarify comment in get_max_dump_pfn()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
fs-proc-page-clarify-comment-in-get_max_dump_pfn.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: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Subject: fs/proc/page: clarify comment in get_max_dump_pfn()
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:59:04 +0200
pfn_to_online_page() will only succeed on some PFNs within the same
section, not necessarily all. Let's make that clearer.
While at it, rephrase it to "Allow inspection of".
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260921-b4-sparsemem_cleanups-v2-12-54d81d65e125@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Kieran Bingham <kbingham@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
---
fs/proc/page.c | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/proc/page.c~fs-proc-page-clarify-comment-in-get_max_dump_pfn
+++ a/fs/proc/page.c
@@ -31,10 +31,9 @@ static inline unsigned long get_max_dump
{
#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
/*
- * The memmap of early sections is completely populated and marked
- * online even if max_pfn does not fall on a section boundary -
- * pfn_to_online_page() will succeed on all pages. Allow inspecting
- * these memmaps.
+ * If max_pfn does not fall on a section boundary, pfn_to_online_page()
+ * can succeed on PFNs beyond max_pfn within the same section. Allow
+ * inspection of these memmaps.
*/
return round_up(max_pfn, PAGES_PER_SECTION);
#else
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from david@kernel.org are
mm-fix-address-wraparound-when-scanning-large-folio-ptes.patch
mm-hugetlb-disable-pmd-sharing-for-uffd-missing-mode.patch
mm-vma-write-lock-source-vma-before-duplicating-it-in-__split_vma.patch
mm-madvise-preserve-vma_softdirty_bit-when-changing-anonymous-names.patch
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