From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,ziy@nvidia.com,vbabka@kernel.org,tglx@kernel.org,surenb@google.com,mingo@redhat.com,hpa@zytor.com,dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,bp@alien8.de,jackmanb@google.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [merged mm-stable] x86-virt-use-higher-level-allocator-api.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:43:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260731024326.6AF011F00A3A@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: x86/virt: use higher-level allocator API
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
x86-virt-use-higher-level-allocator-api.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
------------------------------------------------------
From: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Subject: x86/virt: use higher-level allocator API
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:31:50 +0000
The difference between __alloc_pages_node() and alloc_pages_node() is
that the latter allows you to pass NUMA_NO_NODE.
The former is going away and the latter works fine here so switch over.
No functional change intended.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260703-alloc-trylock-v5-10-c87b714e19d3@google.com
Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Assisted-by: Gemini:unknown-version
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
arch/x86/virt/hw.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/virt/hw.c~x86-virt-use-higher-level-allocator-api
+++ a/arch/x86/virt/hw.c
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ static __init int __x86_vmx_init(void)
struct page *page;
struct vmcs *vmcs;
- page = __alloc_pages_node(node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 0);
+ page = alloc_pages_node(node, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 0);
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!page)) {
x86_vmx_exit();
return -ENOMEM;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from jackmanb@google.com are
mm-secretmem-dont-allow-highmem-folios.patch
mm-page_alloc-dont-spin_trylock-in-nmi-on-up.patch
mm-page_alloc-dont-spin_trylock-when-disallowed-in-free_one_page.patch
mm-page_alloc-rename-fpi_trylock-fpi_nolock.patch
cgroup-cpuset-update-some-comments-about-the-page-allocator.patch
mm-page_alloc-fixup-alloc_pages_nolock_noprof-comment.patch
mm-page_alloc-remove-a-couple-of-vm_bug_onst.patch
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