The patch titled Subject: mm/memory.c: replace vmf->vma with variable vma has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-memoryc-replace-vmf-vma-with-variable-vma.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-memoryc-replace-vmf-vma-with-variable-vma.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-memoryc-replace-vmf-vma-with-variable-vma.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: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/memory.c: replace vmf->vma with variable vma The code has declared a vma_struct named vma which is assigned a value of vmf->vma. Thus, use variable vma directly here. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200818084607.37616-1-yanfei.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memory.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/memory.c~mm-memoryc-replace-vmf-vma-with-variable-vma +++ a/mm/memory.c @@ -3454,7 +3454,7 @@ static vm_fault_t __do_fault(struct vm_f * # flush A, B to clear the writeback */ if (pmd_none(*vmf->pmd) && !vmf->prealloc_pte) { - vmf->prealloc_pte = pte_alloc_one(vmf->vma->vm_mm); + vmf->prealloc_pte = pte_alloc_one(vma->vm_mm); if (!vmf->prealloc_pte) return VM_FAULT_OOM; smp_wmb(); /* See comment in __pte_alloc() */ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from yanfei.xu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-memory-fix-typo-in-__do_fault-comment.patch mm-memoryc-replace-vmf-vma-with-variable-vma.patch