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percpu-fix-the-comment-about-which-sizes-share-a-slot.patch removed from -mm tree

merged mm-stable Andrew Morton 1 participant 1 message Oct 7

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The quilt patch titled
Subject: percpu: fix the comment about which sizes share a slot
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
percpu-fix-the-comment-about-which-sizes-share-a-slot.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: Sang-Heon Jeon <[email protected]>
Subject: percpu: fix the comment about which sizes share a slot
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:48:30 +0900

A percpu allocation is at least PCPU_MIN_ALLOC_SIZE bytes, and __pcpu_size_to_slot() returns 1 for sizes below 16 bytes and 2 for sizes from 16 to 31 bytes.

So fix the wrong comment.

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 mm/percpu.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
mm/percpu.c renamed from mm/percpu.c~percpu-fix-the-comment-about-which-sizes-share-a-slot +1 -1
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
 
 /*
  * The slots are sorted by the size of the biggest continuous free area.
- * 1-31 bytes share the same slot.
+ * [PCPU_MIN_ALLOC_SIZE..15] bytes share the same slot.
  */
 #define PCPU_SLOT_BASE_SHIFT		5
 /* chunks in slots below this are subject to being sidelined on failed alloc */

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Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

mm-swapops-remove-unused-is_hwpoison_entry.patch bootconfig-remove-redundant-assignment-in-xbc_parse_array.patch init-mainc-remove-unreachable-check-in-obsolete_checksetup.patch