[folded-merged] kcov-prefault-the-kcov_area-fix-fix.patch removed from -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: kcov-prefault-the-kcov_area-fix-fix
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     kcov-prefault-the-kcov_area-fix-fix.patch

This patch was dropped because it was folded into kcov-prefault-the-kcov_area.patch

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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: kcov-prefault-the-kcov_area-fix-fix

add comment explaining kcov_fault_in_area()

Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 kernel/kcov.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff -puN kernel/kcov.c~kcov-prefault-the-kcov_area-fix-fix kernel/kcov.c
--- a/kernel/kcov.c~kcov-prefault-the-kcov_area-fix-fix
+++ a/kernel/kcov.c
@@ -324,6 +324,10 @@ static int kcov_close(struct inode *inod
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * fault in a lazily-faulted vmalloc area, to avoid recursion issues if the
+ * vmalloc fault handler itself is instrumented.
+ */
 static void kcov_fault_in_area(struct kcov *kcov)
 {
 	unsigned long stride = PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(unsigned long);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are

kcov-prefault-the-kcov_area.patch
kcov-prefault-the-kcov_area-fix-fix-fix.patch
mm-fix-oom_kill-event-handling-fix.patch

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