The quilt patch titled Subject: mm: change release_pages() to use unsigned long for npages has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-change-release_pages-to-use-unsigned-long-for-npages.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ From: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: change release_pages() to use unsigned long for npages Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 21:18:37 -0700 Patch series "convert most filesystems to pin_user_pages_fast()", v2. This converts the iomap core and bio_release_pages() to pin_user_pages_fast(), also referred to as FOLL_PIN here. The conversion is temporarily guarded by CONFIG_BLK_USE_PIN_USER_PAGES_FOR_DIO. In the future (not part of this series), when we are certain that all filesystems have converted their Direct IO paths to FOLL_PIN, then we can do the final step, which is to get rid of CONFIG_BLK_USE_PIN_USER_PAGES_FOR_DIO and search-and-replace the dio_w_*() functions with their final names (see bvec.h changes). I'd like to get this part committed at some point, because it seems to work well already. And this will help get the remaining items, below, converted. Status: although many filesystems have been converted, some remain to be investigated. These include (you can recreate this list by grepping for iov_iter_get_pages): cephfs cifs 9P RDS net/core: datagram.c, skmsg.c net/tls fs/splice.c This patch (of 7): The various callers of release_pages() are passing in either various types (signed or unsigned) and lengths (int or long) of integers, for the second argument (number of pages). To make this conversion accurate and to avoid having to check for overflow (or deal with type conversion warnings), let's just change release_pages() to accept an unsigned long for the number of pages. Also change the name of the argument, from "nr" to "npages", for clarity, as long as that line is being changed anyway. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220831041843.973026-1-jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220831041843.973026-2-jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/mm.h | 2 +- mm/swap.c | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/mm.h~mm-change-release_pages-to-use-unsigned-long-for-npages +++ a/include/linux/mm.h @@ -1177,7 +1177,7 @@ static inline void folio_put_refs(struct __folio_put(folio); } -void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr); +void release_pages(struct page **pages, unsigned long npages); /** * folios_put - Decrement the reference count on an array of folios. --- a/mm/swap.c~mm-change-release_pages-to-use-unsigned-long-for-npages +++ a/mm/swap.c @@ -975,15 +975,15 @@ void lru_cache_disable(void) * Decrement the reference count on all the pages in @pages. If it * fell to zero, remove the page from the LRU and free it. */ -void release_pages(struct page **pages, int nr) +void release_pages(struct page **pages, unsigned long npages) { - int i; + unsigned long i; LIST_HEAD(pages_to_free); struct lruvec *lruvec = NULL; unsigned long flags = 0; unsigned int lock_batch; - for (i = 0; i < nr; i++) { + for (i = 0; i < npages; i++) { struct folio *folio = page_folio(pages[i]); /* _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-gup-introduce-pin_user_page.patch block-add-dio_w_-wrappers-for-pin-unpin-user-pages.patch iov_iter-new-iov_iter_pin_pages-routines.patch block-bio-fs-convert-most-filesystems-to-pin_user_pages_fast.patch nfs-direct-io-convert-to-foll_pin-pages.patch fuse-convert-direct-io-paths-to-use-foll_pin.patch