The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: shmem: remove 'fadvise()' comments
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-shmem-remove-fadvise-comments.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm: shmem: remove 'fadvise()' comments
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 17:44:18 +0800
Similar to commit 255ff62d1586 ("docs: tmpfs: drop 'fadvise()' from the
documentation"), fadvise() has no HUGEPAGE advise currently. Remove the
confusing fadvise() comments.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/fae702b9775f58b55b45be5eaad22d8586d0290a.1738918357.git.baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/shmem.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/shmem.c~mm-shmem-remove-fadvise-comments
+++ a/mm/shmem.c
@@ -525,9 +525,9 @@ static bool shmem_confirm_swap(struct ad
* enables huge pages for the mount;
* SHMEM_HUGE_WITHIN_SIZE:
* only allocate huge pages if the page will be fully within i_size,
- * also respect fadvise()/madvise() hints;
+ * also respect madvise() hints;
* SHMEM_HUGE_ADVISE:
- * only allocate huge pages if requested with fadvise()/madvise();
+ * only allocate huge pages if requested with madvise();
*/
#define SHMEM_HUGE_NEVER 0
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
