The patch titled mm: remove obsoleted alloc_pages cpuset comment has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-remove-obsoleted-alloc_pages-cpuset-comment.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: mm: remove obsoleted alloc_pages cpuset comment From: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> When a cpuset's nodemask is updated, all attached tasks have their cached task->mems_allowed updated by a heap instead of requiring an explicit call to cpuset_update_task_memory_state(), which has since been removed in 58568d2a8215cb6f55caf2332017d7bdff954e1c ("cpuset,mm: update tasks' mems_allowed in time"). Remove the obsoleted comment from the page allocator. Cc: Paul Menage <menage@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/page_alloc.c~mm-remove-obsoleted-alloc_pages-cpuset-comment mm/page_alloc.c --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-remove-obsoleted-alloc_pages-cpuset-comment +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -1620,10 +1620,6 @@ __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim(gfp_t gfp_m /* We now go into synchronous reclaim */ cpuset_memory_pressure_bump(); - - /* - * The task's cpuset might have expanded its set of allowable nodes - */ p->flags |= PF_MEMALLOC; lockdep_set_current_reclaim_state(gfp_mask); reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab = 0; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch oom-move-oom_adj-value-from-task_struct-to-mm_struct-fix.patch mm-remove-obsoleted-alloc_pages-cpuset-comment.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