The patch titled
Subject: mm: fix comment for NODEMASK_ALLOC
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-fix-comment-for-nodemask_alloc.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: fix comment for NODEMASK_ALLOC
Currently, NODEMASK_ALLOC allocates a nodemask_t with kmalloc when
NODES_SHIFT is higher than 8, otherwise it declares it within the stack.
The comment says that the reasoning behind this, is that nodemask_t will
be 256 bytes when NODES_SHIFT is higher than 8, but this is not true. For
example, NODES_SHIFT = 9 will give us a 64 bytes nodemask_t. Let us fix
up the comment for that.
Another thing is that it might make sense to let values lower than
128bytes be allocated in the stack. Although this all depends on the
depth of the stack (and this changes from function to function), I think
that 64 bytes is something we can easily afford. So we could even bump
the limit by 1 (from > 8 to > 9).
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180820085516.9687-1-osalvador@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/nodemask.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/nodemask.h~mm-fix-comment-for-nodemask_alloc
+++ a/include/linux/nodemask.h
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ static inline int node_random(const node
* NODEMASK_ALLOC(type, name) allocates an object with a specified type and
* name.
*/
-#if NODES_SHIFT > 8 /* nodemask_t > 256 bytes */
+#if NODES_SHIFT > 8 /* nodemask_t > 32 bytes */
#define NODEMASK_ALLOC(type, name, gfp_flags) \
type *name = kmalloc(sizeof(*name), gfp_flags)
#define NODEMASK_FREE(m) kfree(m)
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from osalvador@xxxxxxx are
