The patch titled readahead: remove size limit on read_ahead_kb has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was readahead-remove-size-limit-on-read_ahead_kb.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: readahead: remove size limit on read_ahead_kb From: Wu Fengguang <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Make possible large readahead values harmless. The stock readahead is protected by always consulting the avaiable memory before applying this number. Other readahead paths have already did so. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/readahead.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/readahead.c~readahead-remove-size-limit-on-read_ahead_kb mm/readahead.c --- a/mm/readahead.c~readahead-remove-size-limit-on-read_ahead_kb +++ a/mm/readahead.c @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(file_ra_state_init); */ static inline unsigned long get_max_readahead(struct file_ra_state *ra) { - return ra->ra_pages; + return max_sane_readahead(ra->ra_pages); } static inline unsigned long get_min_readahead(struct file_ra_state *ra) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch readahead-remove-size-limit-on-read_ahead_kb.patch readahead-remove-size-limit-of-max_sectors_kb-on-read_ahead_kb.patch readahead-partial-sendfile-fix.patch readahead-turn-on-by-default.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html