The patch titled Subject: mm/vmalloc.c: fix a warning while make xmldocs has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-fix-a-warning-while-make-xmldocs.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-fix-a-warning-while-make-xmldocs.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-fix-a-warning-while-make-xmldocs.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/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/vmalloc.c: fix a warning while make xmldocs This patch fixes following warning while "make xmldocs" ./mm/vmalloc.c:1877: warning: Excess function parameter 'prot' description in 'vm_map_ram' This warning started since a patch was merged in 5.8-rc1. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200622152850.140871-1-standby24x7@xxxxxxxxx Fixes: d4efd79a81ab ("mm: remove the prot argument from vm_map_ram") Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmalloc.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/vmalloc.c~mm-fix-a-warning-while-make-xmldocs +++ a/mm/vmalloc.c @@ -1862,7 +1862,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vm_unmap_ram); * @pages: an array of pointers to the pages to be mapped * @count: number of pages * @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 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 _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from standby24x7@xxxxxxxxx are mm-fix-a-warning-while-make-xmldocs.patch