The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm-zsmalloc-remove-object-mapping-apis-and-per-cpu-map-areas-fix
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-zsmalloc-remove-object-mapping-apis-and-per-cpu-map-areas-fix.patch
This patch was dropped because it was folded into mm-zsmalloc-remove-object-mapping-apis-and-per-cpu-map-areas.patch
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From: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm-zsmalloc-remove-object-mapping-apis-and-per-cpu-map-areas-fix
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 18:57:51 +0000
update the docs
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Z8ier-ZZp8T6MOTH@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/mm/zsmalloc.rst | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/mm/zsmalloc.rst~mm-zsmalloc-remove-object-mapping-apis-and-per-cpu-map-areas-fix
+++ a/Documentation/mm/zsmalloc.rst
@@ -27,9 +27,8 @@ Instead, it returns an opaque handle (un
location of the allocated object. The reason for this indirection is that
zsmalloc does not keep zspages permanently mapped since that would cause
issues on 32-bit systems where the VA region for kernel space mappings
-is very small. So, before using the allocating memory, the object has to
-be mapped using zs_map_object() to get a usable pointer and subsequently
-unmapped using zs_unmap_object().
+is very small. So, using the allocated memory should be done through the
+proper handle-based APIs.
stat
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from yosry.ahmed@xxxxxxxxx are
mm-z3fold-remove-z3fold.patch
mm-zbud-remove-zbud.patch
mm-zpool-add-interfaces-for-object-read-write-apis.patch
mm-zswap-use-object-read-write-apis-instead-of-object-mapping-apis.patch
mm-zpool-remove-object-mapping-apis.patch
mm-zsmalloc-remove-object-mapping-apis-and-per-cpu-map-areas.patch
mm-zpool-remove-zpool_malloc_support_movable.patch
