The patch titled
Subject: mm/page_alloc.c: fix obsolete comment in free_pcppages_bulk()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-page_allocc-fix-obsolete-comment-in-free_pcppages_bulk.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/page_alloc.c: fix obsolete comment in free_pcppages_bulk()
The second two paragraphs about "all pages pinned" and pages_scanned is
obsolete. And There are PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER + 1 + NR_PCP_THP orders
in pcp. So the same order assumption is not held now.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210902121242.41607-4-linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/page_alloc.c | 8 +-------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_allocc-fix-obsolete-comment-in-free_pcppages_bulk
+++ a/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1428,14 +1428,8 @@ static inline void prefetch_buddy(struct
/*
* Frees a number of pages from the PCP lists
- * Assumes all pages on list are in same zone, and of same order.
+ * Assumes all pages on list are in same zone.
* count is the number of pages to free.
- *
- * If the zone was previously in an "all pages pinned" state then look to
- * see if this freeing clears that state.
- *
- * And clear the zone's pages_scanned counter, to hold off the "all pages are
- * pinned" detection logic.
*/
static void free_pcppages_bulk(struct zone *zone, int count,
struct per_cpu_pages *pcp)
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