The patch titled
Subject: mm/page-flags: fix comment
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
mm-page-flags-fix-comment.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-page-flags-fix-comment.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-page-flags-fix-comment.patch
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From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/page-flags: fix comment
We haven't had 'dontuse' flags since 2002. Replace this obsolete warning
with a hopefully more useful one.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201027025823.3704-1-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/page-flags.h | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h~mm-page-flags-fix-comment
+++ a/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -86,8 +86,7 @@
*/
/*
- * Don't use the *_dontuse flags. Use the macros. Otherwise you'll break
- * locked- and dirty-page accounting.
+ * Don't use the pageflags directly. Use the PageFoo macros.
*
* The page flags field is split into two parts, the main flags area
* which extends from the low bits upwards, and the fields area which
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-fix-readahead_page_batch-for-retry-entries.patch
mm-fix-madvise-willneed-performance-problem.patch
mm-page-flags-fix-comment.patch
