The patch titled Subject: mm-madvise-introduce-process_madvise-syscall-an-external-memory-hinting-api-fix has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-madvise-introduce-process_madvise-syscall-an-external-memory-hinting-api-fix.patch This patch was dropped because it was folded into mm-madvise-introduce-process_madvise-syscall-an-external-memory-hinting-api.patch ------------------------------------------------------ From: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm-madvise-introduce-process_madvise-syscall-an-external-memory-hinting-api-fix make process_madvise() vlen arg have type size_t, per Florian Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/syscalls.h | 2 +- mm/madvise.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/syscalls.h~mm-madvise-introduce-process_madvise-syscall-an-external-memory-hinting-api-fix +++ a/include/linux/syscalls.h @@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_mincore(unsigned lon unsigned char __user * vec); asmlinkage long sys_madvise(unsigned long start, size_t len, int behavior); asmlinkage long sys_process_madvise(int pidfd, const struct iovec __user *vec, - unsigned long vlen, int behavior, unsigned int flags); + size_t vlen, int behavior, unsigned int flags); asmlinkage long sys_remap_file_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long size, unsigned long prot, unsigned long pgoff, unsigned long flags); --- a/mm/madvise.c~mm-madvise-introduce-process_madvise-syscall-an-external-memory-hinting-api-fix +++ a/mm/madvise.c @@ -1232,7 +1232,7 @@ put_pid: return ret; } -static inline int madv_import_iovec(int type, const struct iovec __user *uvec, unsigned int nr_segs, +static inline int madv_import_iovec(int type, const struct iovec __user *uvec, size_t nr_segs, unsigned int fast_segs, struct iovec **iov, struct iov_iter *i) { #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT @@ -1245,7 +1245,7 @@ static inline int madv_import_iovec(int } SYSCALL_DEFINE5(process_madvise, int, pidfd, const struct iovec __user *, vec, - unsigned long, vlen, int, behavior, unsigned int, flags) + size_t, vlen, int, behavior, unsigned int, flags) { ssize_t ret; struct iovec iovstack[UIO_FASTIOV]; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from minchan@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-madvise-pass-mm-to-do_madvise.patch pid-move-pidfd_get_pid-to-pidc.patch mm-madvise-introduce-process_madvise-syscall-an-external-memory-hinting-api.patch mm-madvise-introduce-process_madvise-syscall-an-external-memory-hinting-api-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix.patch mm-madvise-introduce-process_madvise-syscall-an-external-memory-hinting-api-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix-fix.patch