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@ 2020-11-13  0:32 akpm
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From: akpm @ 2020-11-13  0:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mm-commits, william.kucharski, willy


The patch titled
     Subject: mm/page-flags: fix comment
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-page-flags-fix-comment.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-page-flags-fix-comment.patch
and later at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-page-flags-fix-comment.patch

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From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Subject: mm/page-flags: fix comment

We haven't had 'dontuse' flags since 2002.  Replace this obsolete warning
with a hopefully more useful one.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201027025823.3704-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 include/linux/page-flags.h |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h~mm-page-flags-fix-comment
+++ a/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -86,8 +86,7 @@
  */
 
 /*
- * Don't use the *_dontuse flags.  Use the macros.  Otherwise you'll break
- * locked- and dirty-page accounting.
+ * Don't use the pageflags directly.  Use the PageFoo macros.
  *
  * The page flags field is split into two parts, the main flags area
  * which extends from the low bits upwards, and the fields area which
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from willy@infradead.org are

mm-fix-readahead_page_batch-for-retry-entries.patch
mm-fix-madvise-willneed-performance-problem.patch
mm-page-flags-fix-comment.patch


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