The patch titled
Subject: mm/vmalloc.c: update the comment in __vmalloc_area_node()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-vmallocc-update-the-comment-in-__vmalloc_area_node.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-vmallocc-update-the-comment-in-__vmalloc_area_node.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-vmallocc-update-the-comment-in-__vmalloc_area_node.patch
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From: Hui Su <sh_def@xxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/vmalloc.c: update the comment in __vmalloc_area_node()
Since c67dc624757 ("mm/vmalloc: do not call kmemleak_free() on not yet
accounted memory"), the __vunmap() have been changed to __vfree(), so
update the confusing comment().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200927155409.GA3315@rlk
Signed-off-by: Hui Su <sh_def@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c~mm-vmallocc-update-the-comment-in-__vmalloc_area_node
+++ a/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2447,7 +2447,7 @@ static void *__vmalloc_area_node(struct
page = alloc_pages_node(node, alloc_mask|highmem_mask, 0);
if (unlikely(!page)) {
- /* Successfully allocated i pages, free them in __vunmap() */
+ /* Successfully allocated i pages, free them in __vfree() */
area->nr_pages = i;
atomic_long_add(area->nr_pages, &nr_vmalloc_pages);
goto fail;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from sh_def@xxxxxxx are
mmkmemleak-testc-move-kmemleak-testc-to-samples-dir.patch
mm-vmallocc-update-the-comment-in-__vmalloc_area_node.patch
mm-vmscan-fix-comments-for-isolate_lru_page.patch
mm-fix-some-comments-in-page_allocc-and-mempolicyc.patch
