[merged mm-hotfixes-stable] mm-doc-update-read_ahead_kb-for-madv_hugepage.patch removed from -mm tree

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The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm, doc: update read_ahead_kb for MADV_HUGEPAGE
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-doc-update-read_ahead_kb-for-madv_hugepage.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-hotfixes-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm, doc: update read_ahead_kb for MADV_HUGEPAGE
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:07:11 +0800

MADV_HUGEPAGE is a new addition to readahead with behavior distinct from
normal pages.  To prevent confusion, we should update the documentation
accordingly.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241113150711.1685-1-laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block~mm-doc-update-read_ahead_kb-for-madv_hugepage
+++ a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-block
@@ -594,6 +594,9 @@ Description:
 		[RW] Maximum number of kilobytes to read-ahead for filesystems
 		on this block device.
 
+		For MADV_HUGEPAGE, the readahead size may exceed this setting
+		since its granularity is based on the hugepage size.
+
 
 What:		/sys/block/<disk>/queue/rotational
 Date:		January 2009
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx are

mm-readahead-fix-large-folio-support-in-async-readahead.patch





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