* [PATCH] mm: Remove PG_highmem description
@ 2018-01-31 9:33 miles.chen
2018-01-31 13:05 ` Michal Hocko
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: miles.chen @ 2018-01-31 9:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Matthias Brugger, Andrew Morton, Huang Ying, Kate Stewart,
Greg Kroah-Hartman, Thomas Gleixner, Michal Hocko
Cc: linux-kernel, linux-mediatek, wsd_upstream, Miles Chen
From: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
The commit cbe37d093707 ("[PATCH] mm: remove PG_highmem") has removed
PG_highmem to save a page flag. So the description of PG_highmem
is no longer needed, remove it.
Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
---
include/linux/page-flags.h | 5 -----
1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index 3ec44e27aa9d..50c2b8786831 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -46,11 +46,6 @@
* guarantees that this bit is cleared for a page when it first is entered into
* the page cache.
*
- * PG_highmem pages are not permanently mapped into the kernel virtual address
- * space, they need to be kmapped separately for doing IO on the pages. The
- * struct page (these bits with information) are always mapped into kernel
- * address space...
- *
* PG_hwpoison indicates that a page got corrupted in hardware and contains
* data with incorrect ECC bits that triggered a machine check. Accessing is
* not safe since it may cause another machine check. Don't touch!
--
2.12.5
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* Re: [PATCH] mm: Remove PG_highmem description
2018-01-31 9:33 [PATCH] mm: Remove PG_highmem description miles.chen
@ 2018-01-31 13:05 ` Michal Hocko
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Michal Hocko @ 2018-01-31 13:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: miles.chen
Cc: Matthias Brugger, Andrew Morton, Huang Ying, Kate Stewart,
Greg Kroah-Hartman, Thomas Gleixner, linux-kernel,
linux-mediatek, wsd_upstream
On Wed 31-01-18 17:33:32, miles.chen@mediatek.com wrote:
> From: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
>
> The commit cbe37d093707 ("[PATCH] mm: remove PG_highmem") has removed
> PG_highmem to save a page flag. So the description of PG_highmem
> is no longer needed, remove it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> ---
> include/linux/page-flags.h | 5 -----
> 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
> index 3ec44e27aa9d..50c2b8786831 100644
> --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
> +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
> @@ -46,11 +46,6 @@
> * guarantees that this bit is cleared for a page when it first is entered into
> * the page cache.
> *
> - * PG_highmem pages are not permanently mapped into the kernel virtual address
> - * space, they need to be kmapped separately for doing IO on the pages. The
> - * struct page (these bits with information) are always mapped into kernel
> - * address space...
> - *
> * PG_hwpoison indicates that a page got corrupted in hardware and contains
> * data with incorrect ECC bits that triggered a machine check. Accessing is
> * not safe since it may cause another machine check. Don't touch!
> --
> 2.12.5
>
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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