+ mm-page_allocc-cleanup-obsolete-km_user.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: mm/page_alloc.c: cleanup obsolete KM_USER*
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-page_allocc-cleanup-obsolete-km_user.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-page_allocc-cleanup-obsolete-km_user.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-page_allocc-cleanup-obsolete-km_user.patch

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From: Anisse Astier <anisse@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/page_alloc.c: cleanup obsolete KM_USER*

It's been five years now that KM_* kmap flags have been removed and that
we can call clear_highpage from any context.  So we remove prep_zero_pages
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Anisse Astier <anisse@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/page_alloc.c |   17 ++---------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_allocc-cleanup-obsolete-km_user mm/page_alloc.c
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_allocc-cleanup-obsolete-km_user
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -453,20 +453,6 @@ void prep_compound_page(struct page *pag
 	}
 }
 
-static inline void prep_zero_page(struct page *page, unsigned int order,
-							gfp_t gfp_flags)
-{
-	int i;
-
-	/*
-	 * clear_highpage() will use KM_USER0, so it's a bug to use __GFP_ZERO
-	 * and __GFP_HIGHMEM from hard or soft interrupt context.
-	 */
-	VM_BUG_ON((gfp_flags & __GFP_HIGHMEM) && in_interrupt());
-	for (i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++)
-		clear_highpage(page + i);
-}
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 unsigned int _debug_guardpage_minorder;
 bool _debug_pagealloc_enabled __read_mostly;
@@ -1335,7 +1321,8 @@ static int prep_new_page(struct page *pa
 	kasan_alloc_pages(page, order);
 
 	if (gfp_flags & __GFP_ZERO)
-		prep_zero_page(page, order, gfp_flags);
+		for (i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++)
+			clear_highpage(page + i);
 
 	if (order && (gfp_flags & __GFP_COMP))
 		prep_compound_page(page, order);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from anisse@xxxxxxxxx are

mm-page_allocc-cleanup-obsolete-km_user.patch

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