The patch titled
Subject: mm/nommu: remove description of alloc_vm_area
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-nommu-remove-description-of-alloc_vm_area.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/nommu: remove description of alloc_vm_area
The alloc_mm_area in nommu is a stub, but its description states it
allocates kernel address space. Remove the description to make the code
and the documentation agree.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519585191-10180-2-git-send-email-rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/nommu.c | 12 ------------
1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/nommu.c~mm-nommu-remove-description-of-alloc_vm_area mm/nommu.c
--- a/mm/nommu.c~mm-nommu-remove-description-of-alloc_vm_area
+++ a/mm/nommu.c
@@ -457,18 +457,6 @@ void __weak vmalloc_sync_all(void)
{
}
-/**
- * alloc_vm_area - allocate a range of kernel address space
- * @size: size of the area
- *
- * Returns: NULL on failure, vm_struct on success
- *
- * This function reserves a range of kernel address space, and
- * allocates pagetables to map that range. No actual mappings
- * are created. If the kernel address space is not shared
- * between processes, it syncs the pagetable across all
- * processes.
- */
struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(size_t size, pte_t **ptes)
{
BUG();
_
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