The patch titled
Subject: mm/mempolicy: rewrite alloc_pages_vma documentation
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-mempolicy-rewrite-alloc_pages_vma-documentation.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/mempolicy: rewrite alloc_pages_vma documentation
The current formatting doesn't quite work with kernel-doc.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210225150642.2582252-7-willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/mempolicy.c | 34 +++++++++++++---------------------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/mempolicy.c~mm-mempolicy-rewrite-alloc_pages_vma-documentation
+++ a/mm/mempolicy.c
@@ -2153,30 +2153,22 @@ static struct page *alloc_page_interleav
}
/**
- * alloc_pages_vma - Allocate a page for a VMA.
+ * alloc_pages_vma - Allocate a page for a VMA.
+ * @gfp: GFP flags.
+ * @order: Order of the GFP allocation.
+ * @vma: Pointer to VMA or NULL if not available.
+ * @addr: Virtual address of the allocation. Must be inside @vma.
+ * @node: Which node to prefer for allocation (modulo policy).
+ * @hugepage: For hugepages try only the preferred node if possible.
*
- * @gfp:
- * %GFP_USER user allocation.
- * %GFP_KERNEL kernel allocations,
- * %GFP_HIGHMEM highmem/user allocations,
- * %GFP_FS allocation should not call back into a file system.
- * %GFP_ATOMIC don't sleep.
+ * Allocate a page for a specific address in @vma, using the appropriate
+ * NUMA policy. When @vma is not NULL the caller must hold the mmap_lock
+ * of the mm_struct of the VMA to prevent it from going away. Should be
+ * used for all allocations for pages that will be mapped into user space.
*
- * @order:Order of the GFP allocation.
- * @vma: Pointer to VMA or NULL if not available.
- * @addr: Virtual Address of the allocation. Must be inside the VMA.
- * @node: Which node to prefer for allocation (modulo policy).
- * @hugepage: for hugepages try only the preferred node if possible
- *
- * This function allocates a page from the kernel page pool and applies
- * a NUMA policy associated with the VMA or the current process.
- * When VMA is not NULL caller must read-lock the mmap_lock of the
- * mm_struct of the VMA to prevent it from going away. Should be used for
- * all allocations for pages that will be mapped into user space. Returns
- * NULL when no page can be allocated.
+ * Return: The page on success or NULL if allocation fails.
*/
-struct page *
-alloc_pages_vma(gfp_t gfp, int order, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+struct page *alloc_pages_vma(gfp_t gfp, int order, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long addr, int node, bool hugepage)
{
struct mempolicy *pol;
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