Subject: + mm-vmallocc-enhance-vm_map_ram-comment-fix.patch added to -mm tree To: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,gioh.kim@xxxxxxx,hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx,iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx,minchan@xxxxxxxxxx,zhangyanfei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:29:20 -0700 The patch titled Subject: mm-vmallocc-enhance-vm_map_ram-comment-fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-vmallocc-enhance-vm_map_ram-comment-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-vmallocc-enhance-vm_map_ram-comment-fix.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-vmallocc-enhance-vm_map_ram-comment-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm-vmallocc-enhance-vm_map_ram-comment-fix tweak comment text Cc: "Gioh Kim" <gioh.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Gioh Kim <gioh.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmalloc.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/vmalloc.c~mm-vmallocc-enhance-vm_map_ram-comment-fix mm/vmalloc.c --- a/mm/vmalloc.c~mm-vmallocc-enhance-vm_map_ram-comment-fix +++ a/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -1085,11 +1085,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_unmap_ram); * @node: prefer to allocate data structures on this node * @prot: memory protection to use. PAGE_KERNEL for regular RAM * - * If you use this function for below VMAP_MAX_ALLOC pages, it could be faster - * than vmap so it's good. But if you mix long-life and short-life object - * with vm_map_ram, it could consume lots of address space by fragmentation - * (expecially, 32bit machine). You could see failure in the end. - * Please use this function for short-life object. + * If you use this function for less than VMAP_MAX_ALLOC pages, it could be + * faster than vmap so it's good. But if you mix long-life and short-life + * objects with vm_map_ram(), it could consume lots of address space through + * fragmentation (especially on a 32bit machine). You could see failures in + * the end. Please use this function for short-lived objects. * * Returns: a pointer to the address that has been mapped, or %NULL on failure */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are arch-alpha-kernel-systblss-remove-debug-check.patch i-need-old-gcc.patch maintainers-akpm-maintenance.patch revert-kallsyms-fix-absolute-addresses-for-kaslr.patch input-route-kbd-leds-through-the-generic-leds-layer.patch ocfs2-add-dlm_recover_callback_support-in-sysfs-fix.patch ocfs2-flock-drop-cross-node-lock-when-failed-locally-checkpatch-fixes.patch ocfs2-do-not-return-dlm_migrate_response_mastery_ref-to-avoid-endlessloop-during-umount-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm.patch mm-hugetlb-improve-page-fault-scalability-fix.patch mm-vmstat-fix-up-zone-state-accounting-fix.patch mm-keep-page-cache-radix-tree-nodes-in-check-fix-fix.patch mm-process_vm_accessc-mark-function-as-static-fix.patch mm-hugetlbfs-fix-rmapping-for-anonymous-hugepages-with-page_pgoff-v3-fix.patch pagewalk-update-page-table-walker-core-fix-end-address-calculation-in-walk_page_range-fix.patch pagewalk-remove-argument-hmask-from-hugetlb_entry-fix-fix.patch mm-introduce-do_shared_fault-and-drop-do_fault-fix-fix.patch drop_caches-add-some-documentation-and-info-message.patch mmnuma-reorganize-change_pmd_range-fix.patch drivers-lguest-page_tablesc-rename-do_set_pte.patch mm-add-debugfs-tunable-for-fault_around_order-checkpatch-fixes.patch mm-per-thread-vma-caching.patch mm-per-thread-vma-caching-fix-3.patch mm-use-macros-from-compilerh-instead-of-__attribute__-fix.patch mm-compactionc-isolate_freepages_block-small-tuneup.patch mm-vmallocc-enhance-vm_map_ram-comment-fix.patch zram-use-zcomp-compressing-backends-fix.patch zram-return-error-valued-pointer-from-zcomp_create-fix.patch zram-propagate-error-to-user-fix.patch do_shared_fault-check-that-mmap_sem-is-held.patch include-linux-syscallsh-add-sys32_quotactl-prototype-fix.patch sys_sysfs-add-config_sysfs_syscall-fix.patch kernel-groupsc-remove-return-value-of-set_groups-fix.patch ncpfs-convert-dprintk-ddprintk-to-ncp_dbg-fix.patch ncpfs-convert-dprintk-ddprintk-to-ncp_dbg-fix-fix.patch hfsplus-fix-concurrent-acess-of-alloc_blocks-fix.patch hfsplus-fix-concurrent-acess-of-alloc_blocks-fix-fix.patch kmod-run-usermodehelpers-only-on-cpus-allowed-for-kthreadd-v2-fix.patch kmod-run-usermodehelpers-only-on-cpus-allowed-for-kthreadd-v2-checkpatch-fixes.patch include-linux-crash_dumph-add-vmcore_cleanup-prototype-fix.patch kernel-panicc-display-reason-at-end-pr_emerg-fix.patch fault-injection-set-bounds-on-what-proc-self-make-it-fail-accepts-fix.patch initramfs-debug-detected-compression-method-fix.patch linux-next.patch linux-next-git-rejects.patch drivers-gpio-gpio-zevioc-fix-build.patch debugging-keep-track-of-page-owners.patch journal_add_journal_head-debug.patch journal_add_journal_head-debug-fix.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch mutex-subsystem-synchro-test-module.patch slab-leaks3-default-y.patch put_bh-debug.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html