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mm-pagewalk-fix-documentation-of-pte-hole-handling.patch removed from -mm tree

merged mm-stable Andrew Morton 1 participant 1 message Sep 12, 2022

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The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm: pagewalk: fix documentation of PTE hole handling
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-pagewalk-fix-documentation-of-pte-hole-handling.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: Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]>
Subject: mm: pagewalk: fix documentation of PTE hole handling
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 15:01:32 +0200

Empty PTEs are passed to the pte_entry callback, not to pte_hole.

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 include/linux/pagewalk.h |   10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
include/linux/pagewalk.h renamed from include/linux/pagewalk.h~mm-pagewalk-fix-documentation-of-pte-hole-handling +5 -5
@@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ struct mm_walk;
  *			this handler is required to be able to handle
  *			pmd_trans_huge() pmds.  They may simply choose to
  *			split_huge_page() instead of handling it explicitly.
- * @pte_entry:		if set, called for each non-empty PTE (lowest-level)
- *			entry
+ * @pte_entry:		if set, called for each PTE (lowest-level) entry,
+ *			including empty ones
  * @pte_hole:		if set, called for each hole at all levels,
- *			depth is -1 if not known, 0:PGD, 1:P4D, 2:PUD, 3:PMD
- *			4:PTE. Any folded depths (where PTRS_PER_P?D is equal
- *			to 1) are skipped.
+ *			depth is -1 if not known, 0:PGD, 1:P4D, 2:PUD, 3:PMD.
+ *			Any folded depths (where PTRS_PER_P?D is equal to 1)
+ *			are skipped.
  * @hugetlb_entry:	if set, called for each hugetlb entry
  * @test_walk:		caller specific callback function to determine whether
  *			we walk over the current vma or not. Returning 0 means

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